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"U.S. authorities are investigating whether a Chinese company whose popular home-internet routers have been linked to cyberattacks poses a national-security risk and are considering banning the devices.

The router-manufacturer TP-Link, established in China, has roughly 65% of the U.S. market for routers for homes and small businesses. It is also the top choice on Amazon.com, and powers internet communications for the Defense Department and other federal government agencies.

Investigators at the Commerce, Defense and Justice departments have opened their own probes into the company, and authorities could ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the U.S. next year, according to people familiar with the matter. An office of the Commerce Department has subpoenaed TP-Link, some of the people said.

Action against the company would likely fall to the incoming Trump administration, which has signaled an aggressive approach to China."

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-router-tp-link-systems-7d7507e6?st=oP8Bk2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

We joke at work that TP stands for Toilet Paper

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I've been looking for a replacement of my tplink router, though I'm eyeballing a different Chinese company GL.iNet.

Wait, Hong Kong isn't Chinese

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

GL.iNet isn't too bad if you get the OpenWRT routers and reflash from a trusted source

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That was the plan actually

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, Hong Kong isn't Chinese

It is now

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I won't feel any loss if they were banned... TP-Link equipment has been barrel bottom quality consistently. Would rather use a D-Link

[–] Grass 1 points 2 weeks ago

d-link was the bane of my existence in the early days of wifi