Congress warns China could spy on US military at home through CCP-linked smart devices

NY Post ^ | 11/13/2025 | Ryan King

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Lawmakers are warning of risks from Chinese Communist Party-linked networking and smart home products that are quietly being sold at Army, Air Force, and Navy exchanges — online military stores.

Fearing Chinese infiltration, 23 lawmakers from both chambers of Congress are pushing the Trump administration to investigate and consider banning products sold by TP-Link Technologies Co. and its affiliates throughout the entire US.

“Open-source information indicates that TP-Link represents a serious and present danger to U.S. ICTS [Information and communications technology] security,” the group of 23 lawmakers led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Thursday.

“Right now, nothing stops CCP-tied companies from spying on Americans through internet-connected cameras in our homes,” they later added. “The Chinese Communist Party can capture and exploit these videos to track, blackmail, or extort U.S. citizens — including top government and military officials.”

Of particular concern to the bipartisan group is the TP-Link cameras being sold in the US. While they appear to be out of stock on the websites for the Army, Air Force and Navy exchanges, lawmakers fear they are gaining popularity in the US.

Exchanges are limited to active-duty personnel, military families, students at military schools, Department of War employees and veterans.

“China will use any way to infiltrate us, and we must ensure they cannot access our homeland or military bases,” Ernst told The Post.

“We have seen this playbook from China before, with Huawei Technologies, and need the Trump administration to investigate and determine if TP-Link is a trojan horse compromising our national security.”

TP-Link, a popular brand that sells products such as Wi-Fi routers, smart cameras, baby monitors, smart plugs, and more, is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, though it does have a smaller HQ in Irvine, California.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ccpbetterthangop; chinahashealthcare; socialismworks; usbackwater

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Dang! I just received a small TP-Link switch from Amazon yesterday. Does it phone home?

[whitney69]

They’ve been attached to our world wide for years. And if we can get our members to use sense with their home systems at least that would be covered. But when people like Hilly Clinton can’t and was high level security at the time she did it, what are we to expect?

wy69

[SharpRightTurn]

I’ve got a great idea: let’s bring in a few hundred thousand Chinese.

[Sirius Lee]

The derpstate's TIA program was designed to enable big brother to spy on all Americans.

Now that the infrastructure is rolled out, anybody can use it to spy - especially the manufacturers of the technology. I don't know what the Patriot Act geniuses were thinking.

[George from New England]

First thing my geek son does when he gets TP-Link routers is to flash open source firmware ... OpenWrt or DD-wrt

That takes care of the security ocncerns.

[Flaming Conservative]

Well, duh!

[antidemoncrat]

I also wonder how many of the solar panels they have dumped into the US have a secret on/off software switch hidden in them.

[ConservativeMind]

That is exactly what you do.

My first router was a TP-Link, then a Linksys (used DD-WRT on that), then only ASUS routers with Merlin on them.

[George from New England]

Good hardware

[George from New England]

How many inverters are coded to brick themselves on remote command? Even think if an inverter cant ‘talk’ on the net for a week as in global war, then the inverter bricks itself.

[George from New England]

Ever piece of my solar is off-grid. No cloud connection at all.

[woodbutcher1963]

My Google Pixel phone constantly spies on me.
The latest is my brief consideration of gutter covers.
Now, every time I go on Facebook or search anything on the internet an ad for gutters comes up.

There was this guy Mike Yeagley who was recently on the Julian Dorey podcast on YouTube for the second time. He explained how he traced cell phones to Epstein island for DARPA in 2016.

Meaning each and every cell phone can be traced. IF you cross reference where that cell phone goes from place to place you can identify who it is and where that person is going and who is carrying it with relative certainty.

For example, IF that cell phone goes to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation office in Seattle and then to his house in Redmond, WA and then to St Thomas(via private jet) in the USVI, then to Epstein Island you can be relatively sure that cell phone is in the pocket of Bill Gates. This is how DARPA and our government tracks people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRKuPBFPDY

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s how they tracked down most of the January 6 protesters.

[Vaduz]

Computers are the best spy tool ever invented nothing is safe on the internet.

[TBP]

The Dhimmicraps fully support that.

[Usually_Disappointed]

I bought a TP-Link range extender to improve the wireless signal to the back of the house when my kids were stuck home during the covid scam. They complained the internet was still slow though they had strong wireless signal now.

I opened a command prompt and did a little research and it turned out 100% of DNS requests were being routed through a DNS server with a URL ending in .cn (China).

The connection speed was fine. Sending all DNS requests to the other side of the world to get the IP address was causing quite a lag. Of course it also allowed China to log all the internet traffic going through the range extender.

I don’t have anything to hide but someone else using one of these might. Needless to say I threw it away immediately.