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This is about European producers not having a chance against producers on the market, first and foremost. "Security" is just a fig-leaf excuse.
It is so easy to make a device not phone home.
Note the fact that Huawei and SunGrow have remote access to 168 GW already. These device ARE CURRENTLY phoning home.
Why ban the devices entirely, then and not introduce a legal requirement to be able to run the devices entirely on your own network?
That's kinda what they're asking for; to 1 assess risks 2 define guidance/regulation
That requirement is easy to appear to meet while still allowing whatever remote actions they want to do. Remember the first step of evil here would be appearing to work perfectly long enough to get a massive install base. Then the setret signal to all fail goes out to them all. i can come up with the above attack so we can safely assume China can too - they likely have other ideas as well.
And why exactly are we to assume that China has an interest to do so? Have we arrived in full-on cold war rhetoric by now? 🙄
Also: how can the evil Xi Xingping (/s) do an assault on our infrastrugture if we don't allow the device to phone home? If I can prevent my robot-vacuum to connect to the producer's servers, why shouldn't our infrastructure be able to do so?
Does your robot vacum still have all its functionality if it can't talk home? Mine certainly doesn't. I'm pretty sure that big infrastructure components probably all require some form of network communication
That's what a requirement could handle. My robot has all it's functionalities intact.
China is making moves on Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the Philippians. They are building up their military. Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but there is a reasonably possibility of war in the region which the EU will get involved in. The cold war wasn't all unreasonable fear even if some was.
You don't need to phone home. A radio is something you can hide in a chip, using the board itself as an antenna. Then the chip listens for the signal which can be broadcast many ways (the local embassy, satellite, or spys) Isreal already proved that you can attack pagers in ways like this (their radios were hidden in a battery, but the point remains). The engineering is tricky, but well within something China can do.