U.s. Agencies Back Banning Tp-Link Home Routers on Security Grounds
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The US Commerce Department is considering banning TP-Link home routers due to security concerns, sparking debate about government overreach and the effectiveness of such a ban.
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aspenmayerAuthor
2 months ago
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bediger4000
2 months ago
I get the sense that something unspoken is behind this. I can't tell if TP-Link (US company) is too close to TP-Link (Chinese company), or the router software is full of exploitable bugs, or router software is backdoored, or the hardware is backdoored. Installing OpenWrt solves router software problems, nothing short of disposal solves hardware backdoors. I'm discounting oligarchal shakedown because it doesn't fit the Tiktok model. TP-Link isn't big enough, it doesn't threaten any US oligarch, and there hasn't been any Kabuki theatre blustering from Trump himself.
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