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Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by ansible on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:36PM (#41292504)
The high-voltage side should be separated from the electronics, so it shouldn't be dangerous if you are observant.

It may be sufficient to just disconnect the antennas from the WiFi module, that will help prevent any network connections.

Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by Nextgrid on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:39PM (#41292523)
Disconnecting the antenna would still have leakage at close range. Grounding the antenna might be a better option. But in practice, the dangers highlighted by the article only surface when an attacker has control of many solar plants at scale.

Compromising an individual one by getting close-range physical access will be a local annoyance but wouldn't scale to a level where it can threaten the grid, so it limits the pool of potential attackers to local vandals (which can achieve their goals easier by just throwing rocks at your panels).

Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by ijustlovemath on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:06PM (#41294952)
Without an antenna, even at close range, initial handshakes will fail or be unreliable.
Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by serial_dev on Monday August 19, 2024 @03:25PM (#41293878)
Disclaimer, ymmw, if you have no clue about these systems (average people), you can still easily kill yourself in the process.