Posted on 05/30/2025 10:12:40 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes
It's not just TikTok that's in trouble over cybersecurity. U.S. authorities are investigating TP-Link, a Chinese company that holds 65% of the U.S. market for home and small-business routers, for potential national security risks, the Wall Street Journal reports today.
The company’s routers have been linked to cyberattacks targeting Western organizations and government agencies.
Key points Security Concerns: Microsoft found that Chinese hackers used TP-Link routers in cyberattacks. Government Probes: Commerce, Defense, and Justice departments are investigating, with a potential U.S. ban on TP-Link devices under consideration for next year. Router Flaws: TP-Link routers are often shipped with unaddressed security vulnerabilities. TP-Link denies the claims, stating it follows industry security standards. If banned, this would be the largest removal of Chinese telecom equipment from the U.S. since Huawei in 2019. The investigation reflects broader concerns about supply chain security in telecommunications.
“We welcome any opportunities to engage with the U.S. government to demonstrate that our security practices are fully in line with industry security standards, and to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the U.S. market, U.S. consumers, and addressing U.S. national security risks,” a spokeswoman for TP-Link's U.S. distributor said.
If the routers are banned, it would mark the biggest extraction of Chinese telecom equipment from the country since the Trump administration in 2019 ordered Huawei Technologies' equipment removed from infrastructure in the U.S.
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I like my TP Link router. The policy should be:
“If you like your router you can keep your router.”
Never fooled with TP Link myself.
Netgear has been what I’ve used for many years in different forms.
The Orbi I’ve been using for a couple years now has been almost no touch except for checking firmware is up to date after initial setup and routine items as changing the defaults.
open source router firmware
https://search.brave.com/search?q=open+source+router+firmware
open source ethernet switch driver
https://search.brave.com/search?q=open+source+ethernet+switch+driver
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Only use tp- link with OpenWrt firmware
Only use tp- link with OpenWrt firmware
I have used networking hardware for decades and for sure I have never bought a TP Link device. I have seen them in thrift stores but I still wouldn’t buy one. DLink is the lowest quality I will use because Cisco owns it but all of my last 3 wifi routers have been Netgear Nighthawk. Also my hotspot. Everything else is cheap crap made in the Chinese Laogai with slave labor.
That is really anecdotal. I have bought many hard drives from liquidators as near new as being available in the original box and apparently sealed. I once bought a used hard drive from eBay which had mp3 files from billboard top 100 1960 through 2003 and also a bunch of porn on it. I of course deleted all the porn and backed up the music files before erasing it. I have no desire to have porn on any computer if I was to die suddenly and have my kids going through my data.
Linksys stuff lasts about two years, then one day you find the device on its back with with its legs in the air.
I gave up on them many years ago.
Yup.
I have an Asus router too. I checked to see if I was infected.
As long as SSH is not enabled on the router with the port set to 53282 then you are not infected.
You probable aren’t as it has only been detected on about 9,000 devices.
The problem is the Chinese angle.
The Chinese angle us the problem.
I wonder about my dumb switch?
Used HDD and porn was a deal years ago. Kind of like a bonus.
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“then one day you find the device on its back with with its legs in the air.”
My ex wife was like that.
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Nope.
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