The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids

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58 points JumpCrisscross | 2 comments | 12 Apr 25 18:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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Animats ◴[12 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43667500[source]▶

Then they'll make them "cloud-enabled" and they will be hacked.

It's scary to see protective relays for power systems with embedded web servers. "IEEE C37.118 synchrophasor measurement, DNP3 Outstation, Modbus TCP/RTU, Telnet, FTP, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), built-in web server, and IEC 61850" [1]

[1] https://selinc.com/products/351/#

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1. sightbroke ◴[12 Apr 25 22:52 UTC] No.43668553[source]▶

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> Then they'll make them "cloud-enabled" and they will be hacked.

It's worse:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/could-hackers-use-n...

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2. metalman ◴[13 Apr 25 10:36 UTC] No.43671764[source]▶

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the integration of the SST's is years out, anything right now is test phase, and work at bringing awareness to the grid operators, who by the way are all conversant with the peculiaritys of working with steam, ie: a conservative bunch who you can bet, will be running code on terminals so esoteric and unpublished as to invite madness for the unwary.........that, and power companys have been embedding there own private fibre inside the core's of the HVTL, so they have unusual options. It's the grid fer fucks sake, give them some credit. Powermag looks to be extra solid,bookmarked.

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