Ramon Valdez  Dec 3
Zack Whittaker

New, by me: Router maker TP-Link faces a potential U.S.-wide ban over its alleged links to China. In my latest analysis, I dive into why a TP-Link ban is unlikely to make America meaningfully safer from Chinese cyberthreats (or anywhere). Please share!

Read more: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/banning-tp-link-wont-save-america-from-its-own-terrible-cybersecurity

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Banning TP-Link won't save America from its own terrible cybersecurity

TP-Link routers face a ban in the U.S. over the company's alleged links to China, but shoddy cybersecurity is the real insider threat to the United States.

~this week in security~
Nov 26 at 1:26pmWeb
Show threadHydrianNov 26
@zackwhittaker @nemo Not without a compresensive banning of chinese networking gear manufactures, it doesn't really do much. There are many vendors that could be on that list. #Dlink is a good example of that.
Show threadderptronNov 26

@zackwhittaker "there are sufficient links tying TP-Link to China, and that could theoretically allow the Chinese government to force TP-Link to act in some nefarious capacity against U.S. national interests."

Straight making shit up.

There's something else going on here. TP-Link must have pissed off Trump somehow or failed to pay a bribe of some sort. Like twitch or whatever...USA/Trump will own some of TP-Link soon.

Show threadAdrian SanabriaNov 30
@zackwhittaker like, the 500 million existing TP Link devices floating around the country?
Show threadAdrian SanabriaNov 30
@zackwhittaker also, with half a billion of these floating around, surely there is tons of tangible evidence that they’re a threat, right? RIGHT?