Subj : Re: CAlling the Mothership - remote control by the CCCP?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : k9zw
Date : Thu Jun 26 2025 16:50:51

On 25 Jun 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> -=> k9zw wrote to All <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  k9> The large industrial batteries are claimed to have undocumented
 pF>  k9> embedded cellular communication equipment.
 pF> 
 pF>  I work in the BESS space (Battery/hybrid solar storage) and the
 pF>  operations guys go over battery systems closely. I think it'd be hard
 pF>  to sneak in a cellular system inside of a metal case.
 pF> 
 pF>  They'd still need to register with a cell tower somehow to communicate
 pF>  unless there was some way of doing point-to-point comms via cell?
 pF> 

Apparently the batteries of concern are utility company sized things, and the communicators were as much undocumented features that weren't supposed to be there, rather than technological spy-ware sorts of hardware.

Whether they used cellular or satellite was not detailed.

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I was talking with people in the big equipment scene and they have seen an uptick in unexpected embedded communicators in some classes.  The news covered the warf-cranes but it has been seen wider.

I am not up on CAN-BUSS type technologies, so I don't first hand had any insight into what control could be gained, but it must be enough to risk upsetting end clients?

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