Oh but all the US hardware with spyware from the NSA/FBI is just fiiiiiiiiiine.
As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it.
It’s also a laugh for them to say “fuck you consumers you don’t get to” when the federal government already fucking blew it with SolarWinds.
Personal opinion this is much ado about nothing. In other words this article is baseless fear-mongering.
Trump is a bigger national security concern than fucking TP-Link and no one in power is seriously talking about removing him.
His economic moves will devalue the US Dollar and put it at risk as a reserve currency. Who is gonna step in? China.
But boo hoo, we should ban TP-Link! What a fucking joke. If you’re really “worried” about China, get rid of Trump yesterday.
Trump is a bigger national security concern than fucking TP-Link and no one in power is seriously talking about removing him.
There is an abstract ironic beauty to this.
To secure US networks, start by kicking Musk out of government systems.
Seriously, DOGE could be literally installing ransomware that kicks off if anyone tries to block them… They were hooking up random fucking servers right into secured government systems and were given write access at some of those government systems.
“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/
As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free
I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.
Yeah, it boils down to… who do you want seeing your data?
The Chinese? or the Americans?
Three separate government departments are investigating TP-Link, so someone either tipped the Fed off and you (and the public) know nothing, or this is simply a witch hunt.
Since I know for a fact I can’t trust anyone commenting anywhere on the internet as a credible source, I’m hoping those departments who once were independent of the Executive control and free of Trump corruption and are now filled with human excrement yes-men MAGA regarded morons, i will hold my anger until we know more.
It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US
The US government has something of a credibility crisis, doesn’t it? (And I don’t think it started with Trump, though he makes it worse.)
I can’t wait to get a hold of a bunch of cheap TP Link routers. Those things run OpenWRT like champs.
I love my Toilet Paper-Link router. It’s the only one I’ve ever owned that didn’t start randomly losing the internet connection after two years. I don’t know why every router starts acting up like that; I’ve had issues with literally every brand except this one.
I’ve had tplink forever and recently got a netgear to put openwrt on it. It’s pretty cool
Every single consumer SOHO router is just a data mining security clusterfuck these days, brand is irrelevant. The only way to really get away from it is to run your own SBC or NUC with a wifi card and shit.
They make mini PCs with five Ethernet ports that are perfect for this sort of thing.
Should we worry? About Trump’s reciprocal tariffs which are going to plunge the world into the greatest recession since the 1930’s, Trump breaking the post war Western alliance and making partner of Putin’s Russa, or Trump dismantling of the Constitutional underpinnings of all American juris prudence? Oh, you’re talking about some fucking router.
Dumb policy but still fuck tp link routers. They never took security remotely seriously to the point where their products are known for being a good entry point into learning about exploiting embedded devices.
Don’t really care or think the government spyware concerns are particularly legitimate but they definitely aren’t secure products to have on your network
You sure you’re not confusing TP-Link with D-Link? The latter has been the common attack surface I’m familiar with, and the former has been a staple for enthusiasts and as a tool for pentesters.
I don’t care if China steals my data or uses my router as a vector for a DOS attack at this point. My fascist nation already has domestic back doors to spy on me if I was interesting enough. My opinion of China is roughly the same as my opinion of my own red white and blue shithole, about as low as you can go. In fact, their regular people on the street seem a hell of a lot more prosocial and EMPATHETIC than I’ve ever seen here in the US going by Rednote. I’m on nobody’s side geopolitically because nobody is on my side.
Besides, we destroyed ourselves already. Checkmate CCP! Have fun spying on the ash heap. Spoilers: we’re largely poorly educated here by design, so enjoy the stream of "…evolution is just a theory science is fake education is a scam pull yourself by your bootstraps stop virtue signaling it’s not greed I’m rationally self-interested… "
In a fucked up way I lol’d at this. If I put on my tinfoil hat I’d say the USA is encouraging China to “spy” on us so they have to absorb the brainrot. Poor bastards
Maybe China isn’t the bad guy. They have goals. Goals are good. We’re mainly into destruction and extracting capital. Wild thought, maybe we’ve never been the good guys. :o
I don’t think goals are inherently good… Hitler had goals…
I believe you’re referencing Hitler to the incorrect country. China’s moving towards socialism, very slowly. The US is going straight fash at the speed of light.
I wasn’t meaning to criticise any particular country, I just meant that goals aren’t inherently a good thing.
Regarding China and the US, I think both countries have a lot to offer, and there will be decent people from each country, but I don’t think I’m a fan of the current government of either country.
Sickusername btw. Ever seen them live? One of the best shows I saw in the few surrounding years (of the year I saw them)
No I haven’t, in fact I think I only know one song by them… good song though (Jobseeker). I should probably check out more of their stuff.
I just chose this username because I was trying to think of something randomly and it popped into my head.
Nah that’s amazing. But yes, definitely check out more of their stuff if you like jobseeker. Another in a similar vein is Till Dipper. Not just because of the similar sounding names. But you really can’t go wrong. Their newer album is a little more accessible I think. UK Grim the song gets stuck in my head constantly.
