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.
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.
Besides, we destroyed ourselves already. Checkmate CCP! Have fun spying on the ash heap.
Maybe China isn’t the bad guy. They have goals. Goals are good. We’re mainly into destruction and extracting capital. Wild thought, maybe we’ve never been the good guys. :o
I don’t think goals are inherently good… Hitler had goals…
I believe you’re referencing Hitler to the incorrect country. China’s moving towards socialism, very slowly. The US is going straight fash at the speed of light.
In a fucked up way I lol’d at this. If I put on my tinfoil hat I’d say the USA is encouraging China to “spy” on us so they have to absorb the brainrot. Poor bastards
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
There’s quite a few TP-Link Models that can be flashed with open source firmware. The ones I helped friends and family with seemed to get software updates consistently after being discontinued.
This isn’t an all out endorsement, but I’ve certainly seen worse.
You sure you’re not confusing TP-Link with D-Link? The latter has been the common attack surface I’m familiar with, and the former has been a staple for enthusiasts and as a tool for pentesters.
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.
Every single consumer SOHO router is just a data mining security clusterfuck these days, brand is irrelevant. The only way to really get away from it is to run your own SBC or NUC with a wifi card and shit.
Mikrotik is probably OK IMO.
probably, lol. they don’t even support openwrt
And?
what do you base that probably upon?
OpenWRT?
Key word: consumer. You won’t find a single router on store shelves that the layman is not getting all of their data collected through.
GL.Inet sells routers that run openwrt out of the box. I’m not claiming they’re guaranteed to not be modified to collect data, but just giving an example that there are consumer grade products out there that are better options, you just need to look for them.
Should we worry? About Trump’s reciprocal tariffs which are going to plunge the world into the greatest recession since the 1930’s, Trump breaking the post war Western alliance and making partner of Putin’s Russa, or Trump dismantling of the Constitutional underpinnings of all American juris prudence? Oh, you’re talking about some fucking router.
