Technology

I've had tplink forever and recently got a netgear to put openwrt on it. It's pretty cool

I love my Toilet Paper-Link router. It's the only one I've ever owned that didn't start randomly losing the internet connection after two years. I don't know why every router starts acting up like that; I've had issues with literally every brand except this one.

I don't understand why they're considering a ban. People should be changing the default password on their router. If they aren't and they leak information that isn't theirs, tough shit, fine them. If they leak their own information, let them deal with the consequences.

His economic moves will devalue the US Dollar and put it at risk as a reserve currency. Who is gonna step in? China.

China doesn’t want to become the world currency, but they do want a BRICS currency. This will take years, though.

I can’t wait to get a hold of a bunch of cheap TP Link routers. Those things run OpenWRT like champs.

I don't care if China steals my data or uses my router as a vector for a DOS attack at this point. My fascist nation already has domestic back doors to spy on me if I was interesting enough. My opinion of China is roughly the same as my opinion of my own red white and blue shithole, about as low as you can go. In fact, their regular people on the street seem a hell of a lot more prosocial and EMPATHETIC than I've ever seen here in the US going by Rednote. I'm on nobody's side geopolitically because nobody is on my side.

Besides, we destroyed ourselves already. Checkmate CCP! Have fun spying on the ash heap. Spoilers: we're largely poorly educated here by design, so enjoy the stream of "...evolution is just a theory science is fake education is a scam pull yourself by your bootstraps stop virtue signaling it's not greed I'm rationally self-interested... "

I buy a lot of TP-Link switches because they are cheap so please dont

Please yes, I look forward to cheaper routers due to oversupply.

Dumb policy but still fuck tp link routers. They never took security remotely seriously to the point where their products are known for being a good entry point into learning about exploiting embedded devices.

Don't really care or think the government spyware concerns are particularly legitimate but they definitely aren't secure products to have on your network

Banning TP-Link routers isn't going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of insecure routers, SOHO or otherwise. Too many people and companies set shit up and then ignore it until it breaks and under these conditions routers are always going to become insecure given a long enough timeline.

Fire up Shodan and see how many discontinued Cisco ASAs are out there. Hell you can probably still find some Cisco PIX boxes even though they went away nearly twenty years ago! Those aren't people doing that, those are COMPANIES.

The problem here isn't the brand or even the silicon that brand uses. It's with the utter lack of management (including EoL replacement) by the people using the damn things.