US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routers

When your router's chips are made in China, flashed in China with closed source firmware and the money you pay goes to Chinese companies, then it's backdoored.

When your router's chips are made in China, flashed in China with closed source firmware and the money you pay goes to American companies, it's bulletproof.

Just open your "secure" "American" router and look where they are made and flashed. I bet it's not USA.

We have this really great approach to security where we allow the adversary to infiltrate a huge portion of our infrastructure for years and at many different levels, and then we say "hm, maybe we shouldn't be allowing this?"

The US government is just upset because it’s harder to place back doors in non-US hardware. It’s a US national security concern to NOT have US back doors in devices.

Running OpenWRT is generally a good idea. I’m not gonna lie and say it’s easy to setup. But it’s worth it.

I'd personally hope they just force open sourcing their firmwares if they want to stay in the market. I really like my Omada stuff, ubiquiti is just a tough pill to swallow on price.

So who tf is left who makes good wireless routers? When I bought my tp-link it was top rated and recommended by everyone.

law that prohibits attempts at monopolies

Why hasn't this law been used before for so many other things, like all cash burn tech startups such as Uber, etc? Genuine question not being sarcastic...

Wait until they hear where all electronics come from. Are they gonna ban Apple?

Someone in the comment section posted a good question. Which specific routers that TP-Link makes are the issue?

Is it all routers that they make or is this just because they are selling inexpensive routers that have become a large part of the US market?

Does someone have an article that isn’t biased one way or the other that gives a list of effected routers ?

maybe the us should try actually investing in their own infrastructure instead of just relying on rabid xenophobia and sinophobia

Damn, maybe we should have some kind of privacy law that could have prevented this behavior from ever being allowed in the first place.

So they're going to flush the TP?

I feel sorry for D-Link, they're probably going to get caught in the crossfire via people thinking they're the same company.

Why so late ? Of course this should have been zone before. It's a question of sécurité.

So many MSPs are gonna panic if tplink is banned

Joe Biden has turned out to be the most fascist president in recent memory. He even supports fascism abroad. When a president supports a country that blocks a certain denomination of religion, bans a whole language, and bans political parties, using Nazee propaganda as a recruitment marketing, while having no democracy. What can you say? Then he supports ethnic cleansing to make Lebensraum for another ethnic group. What a sick man this chap is and completely incompetent. Now he is banning things made by Chinese people, if that isn't racist, I don't know what is. The only thing he is exceptional at is getting others killed. Good riddance. One thing for sure, there will be no justice.