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US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by avieshek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TP-link is reportedly being investigated over national security concerns linked to vulnerabilities in its very popular routers.

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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Someone in the comment section posted a good question. Which specific routers that TP-Link makes are the issue?

Is it all routers that they make or is this just because they are selling inexpensive routers that have become a large part of the US market?

Does someone have an article that isn’t biased one way or the other that gives a list of effected routers ?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 8 hours ago

Which specific routers that TP-Link makes are the issue?

They are presumably talking about CovertNetwork-1658 and the reason there's no list of routers is because no one has publicly described the vulnerability that is being leveraged.

My guess is that the vulnerability is present on most of their routers. I'm basing that opinion on the fact that previous CVEs issues against TP-LINK have impacted their most popular product lines like Archer and Deco.

It's possible that this is related to CVE-2024-21833 which was open in January of 2024, update in July of 2024, then updated again in late November of 2024.

[–] humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

They don't care. They want to ban TP-Link as a company, routers are just an excuse.

This is the same people that keep blocking US gdpr legislation, so we know for a fact they don't care about us, they just care about not being able to spy themselves.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Does someone have an article that isn’t biased one way or the other

We're literally inside an imperial core.

that gives a list of effected routers ?

If there was a list of effected routers, TP-Link would most likely have patched them.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Most likely old routers still sold on Amazon instead of the latest WiFi 7 models on the website~

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Why would you assume that? They probably all use the same base.