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On top of it, this never had anything to do with HACKING, lol. It was price competition, since they sell their products for way cheaper than Asus, Netgear, and others and still make a profit, which hurts the other manufactures pockets so they cry to their lobbyist for help since they cant compete with their outrageous prices.
So always good to read and understand the Fake news before taking a random lazy journalists word for it.
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I'm not trying to thread crap but figured that some people might be interested in this information since it could wind up affecting long-term use of TP-Link products.
I'm not trying to thread crap but figured that some people might be interested in this information since it could wind up affecting long-term use of TP-Link products.
On top of it, this never had anything to do with HACKING, lol. It was price competition, since they sell their products for way cheaper than Asus, Netgear, and others and still make a profit, which hurts the other manufactures pockets so they cry to their lobbyist for help since they cant compete with their outrageous prices.
So always good to read and understand the Fake news before taking a random lazy journalists word for it.
damn damn. Oh well. SD to whoever has it, congrats.
Just FYI, as for your stability issues could be many factors to that, could have been a one off bad modem/router combo from spectrum, could also be line related or tap related issues on your run from spectrum. So no matter which router you go with if you continue to have issue it at that point is a spectrum issue...
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TP-Link is also under investigation by the Justice Department for predatory pricing, according to Bloomberg and reported also by Reuters (more lazy journalists, apparently): https://www.reuters.com/technolog...025-04-25/ If you can't figure out how predatory pricing leading to higher market penetration of compromised hardware could be beneficial to government-backed exploitation, let me know, and I can explain that. We've only recently, in relative terms, started to appreciate the problem with supply chain exploitation, and it's all connected. It was recently revealed that some Chinese-manufactured solar panels had some nefarious parts within them, and that industry dominance was certainly aided by illegal Chinese dumping and predatory pricing to drive out domestic competitors. Ditto for drones and DJI (the U.S. is apparently considering a ban on them as well, interestingly enough).
Incidentally, a group of Republican Senators and Representatives sent a letter in May of THIS YEAR calling on the Commerce Dept to ban TP-Link. So, it's most definitely not moving in the "REVERSE direction" since the Republicans are in firm control for another 18 months. Here's a handy link to the letter (2nd bullet at the top of the article): https://www.cybersecuri
So, multiple news organizations, another government, and multiple U.S. government agencies have expressed concern about TP-Link, as recently as a couple months ago. I'm just laying out facts, not defending anything. However, your insinuation that everything is hunky dory simply isn't true because I've seen no indication that any government investigations have concluded, which TP-Link would LOUDLY advertise if that were true. TP-Link still has 11,000 employees in China and still manufactures their products there, and if you think that doesn't tie them to the Chinese government, you are terribly naive.
The initial allegations are exceptionally plausible, consistent with a slew of open source reporting on similar allegations, and not yet resolved. Does any of it matter to the VAST majority of people? Probably not, but there's no reason to avoid laying out relevant (sourced) facts unless you have an agenda.
TP-Link is also under investigation by the Justice Department for predatory pricing, according to Bloomberg and reported also by Reuters (more lazy journalists, apparently): https://www.reuters.com/technolog...025-04-25/ If you can't figure out how predatory pricing leading to higher market penetration of compromised hardware could be beneficial to government-backed exploitation, let me know, and I can explain that. We've only recently, in relative terms, started to appreciate the problem with supply chain exploitation, and it's all connected. It was recently revealed that some Chinese-manufactured solar panels had some nefarious parts within them, and that industry dominance was certainly aided by illegal Chinese dumping and predatory pricing to drive out domestic competitors. Ditto for drones and DJI (the U.S. is apparently considering a ban on them as well, interestingly enough).
Incidentally, a group of Republican Senators and Representatives sent a letter in May of THIS YEAR calling on the Commerce Dept to ban TP-Link. So, it's most definitely not moving in the "REVERSE direction" since the Republicans are in firm control for another 18 months. Here's a handy link to the letter (2nd bullet at the top of the article): https://www.cybersecuri
So, multiple news organizations, another government, and multiple U.S. government agencies have expressed concern about TP-Link, as recently as a couple months ago. I'm just laying out facts, not defending anything. However, your insinuation that everything is hunky dory simply isn't true because I've seen no indication that any government investigations have concluded, which TP-Link would LOUDLY advertise if that were true. TP-Link still has 11,000 employees in China and still manufactures their products there, and if you think that doesn't tie them to the Chinese government, you are terribly naive.
The initial allegations are exceptionally plausible, consistent with a slew of open source reporting on similar allegations, and not yet resolved. Does any of it matter to the VAST majority of people? Probably not, but there's no reason to avoid laying out relevant (sourced) facts unless you have an agenda.
As for your hacking, you mean to hacks that effect all the other major brands too but with less effect cause of their market share being pithful to TP-Link? As proven already countless times. Not to mention last major hack was to Asus routers.....
https://www.pcmag.com/news/cyberc...into-yours
https://www.cybersecuri
Or do you want some Netgear hacks....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dave...pdate-now/
https://www.netgear.com/hub/netwo...t-attacks/
So yeah, want to talk about hacking, the only difference is TP-Link has more market share than the above combined and its not even close. Thats why this was never about "hacking" but predatory pricing as even your memo mentions, which is the letter you referenced but its been a bit and I thought it was house reps, so I was wrong there it was Senate reps.
Yes the agenda of leveling the playing field when people always seem to forget to mention that there is nothing special about any of the manufactures besides market share and pricing.... When it comes to security they are all in the same bucket. Or did you forget that the USA installed back doors in all the major brands and spied on people all around the world without permission illegally already????
As for CISA, you cant just be a part of CISA cause of a pledge, you have to be allowed in by the agency... These new wave of routers are made to comply fully to CISA standards.... Which is why they list it as a feature.
" - TP-Link is a signatory of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Secure-by-Design pledge. This device is designed, built, and maintained, with advanced security as a core requirement."
So yes reverse direction, cause some lobbyist are getting paid by router manufactures to attack TP-Link wont change much, since there is no proof of any subversive activity directly attributed by the parent company. As for things made in China, just about every sub component product made everywhere in the world use components made in China.... Are they dangers too that need to be banned???
People need to use their critical thinking skills more.... So the concern level for this is miniscule at best when put into real perspective.
Just wanted to add if the US in any shape way or form was serious about the security threat, they would still not TO THIS DAY be using and offering TP-Link products on their bases which they still are!
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