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I'm almost grateful to the manufacturer for demonstrating the terrifying kind of cyberattack enabled by such remote update/lockout functionality. Just imagine

• _trampeltier 2y ago
  There was already a case (many years ago), where something was wrong with an update. All inverters from a country did not start anymore. (You have to set the country or grid code in each inverter, so they know the grid limits).
• joe_the_user 2y ago
  I'm not sure about this. I know various hackers, back in the day, were congratulated for their "public service" of showing vulnerabilities. The problem is that we've to a network infrastructure that is only secure by piecemeal bug fixes and ad-hoc filtering and moved to situation where hacking is a (maximally shady) business. Will things be different with power grid and other infrastructure because lives depend on it? I don't see any indications. "The society at the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by five principal features: incessant technological renewal; fusion of State and economy; generalized secrecy, unanswerable lies; a perpetual present." Guy Debord, Commentaries on Society Of The Spectacle
• rootusrootus 2y ago
  That is sort of a silver lining. We can use PR disasters as levers to make regulation happen which will hopefully add some protection in the future.
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