As an aside, something extremely annoying I've noticed about tplink is that every once in a while when I go to log into the router, it redirects to a tplink website and proxies my local router page through it.

Terrible.

Msn refetence, pfft

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tp-link-router-china-us-ban/#si...

>>The router-manufacturer TP-Link, established in China, has roughly 65% of the U.S. market for routers for homes and small businesses

Ban TP-link and tens or hundreds of chinese disposable brands will sell OEM TPlink routers, with even worse security.

Solution: all hardware IOT companies are responsible for any vulnerability discovered. ISPs are fined according to the number of vulnerable devices they connect. Watch responsible brands trying to cannibalize each other (discovering vulnerabilities) and ISPs actually caring about enforcing.

By "responsible" I mean recalls and replacements. Financial and penal responsibility.

IOTs will cost their actual price, without being financed by adversarial agents and bad manufacturing practices.

Why does this have to be a political issue the TP-Links hardware and software can be examined, this is not a difficult process that would need the greatest experts on earth a simple examination should show whether data is being sent to China or if there is any security issue that can be spoken of so far nothing. Might as well say sanction then because we need to make a distinction between a technical security flaw or economic and political reasons, if the security flaw is not articulated then it's safe to assume it is political.