Revealed: China has secretly installed kill switches in solar panels sold to the West

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14718749/China-secretly-installed-kill-switches-solar-panels-sold-West-Beijing-plunge-enemies-darkness-event-WW3.html

Posted by SoggyWotsits

16 comments

  1. Should be fairly easy to rectify if true, but it’s another reason why we should be decoupling from China as fast as humanly possible. Their cars are already banned from MoD sites, but action needs to be taken further and faster to protect UK interests

  2. So within 1 paragraph I knew this headline was shit.

    I knew before because there is no way to “kill switch” a panel.

    What they are talking about is come chips in the charge controlers and inverters. The same comes chip that reports all those lovely numbers people like to see to their phones.

    Any idiot could have told you there was a come chip when it has WiFi ffs.

  4. The thing is, at this point we are potentially going to need to worry about the US doing the same.

    The US and its corporations damage the UK far more than China tbh. And that was before Trump. The amount they avoided in tax is kind of insane.

  6. **FAKE NEWS** the communication devices are actually in the inverters:

    “…risks posed by small communication devices in **power inverters**”

    Power inverter != solar panel

  9. And how do these so called ‘kill switches’ get activated, with no internet connection and no 4G/5G etc?
    Is the Daily Mail supposed to have you believe that China will personally come round to your house and turn them off? 🤣🤷🏼‍♂️

    Once again utter bs scaremongering from Daily Mail.

  10. So we can’t trust USA, we can’t trust china, and we set up trade barriers with the EU for some reason

    Smart country.

  13. Don’t connect them to the internet!

    Use an external monitoring device (eg Octopus mini).

  15. >The two Reuters sources declined to name the Chinese manufacturers of the inverters and batteries with extra communication devices, nor say how many they had found

    Why would they hide this information?

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