The incoming Trump administration could take action next year.

TP-link is reportedly being investigated over national security concerns linked to vulnerabilities in its very popular routers.

  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    3 days ago

    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.todayEnglish
      6·
      2 days 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.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      94·
      3 days ago

      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.worldOPEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

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

          • Avieshek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            TP-Link is popular because of their cheap options while easy-to-setup for average joe families.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Right, but I’m not seeing a reason that only the older routers would have these vulnerabilities. I’m guessing the base OS for all of them is quite similar.

              • Avieshek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Well, they also don’t offer more than 2 updates on their proprietary software… so you can just categorise them as vintage or out of service like Apple especially for even older hardware that’s $20 or less like Tenda which is also another Chinese brand.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      53·
      2 days 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.