{"id":14183,"date":"2025-02-21T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:05:49","slug":"the-us-is-considering-a-tp-link-router-ban-should-you-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14183","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban\u2014Should You Worry?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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TP-Link is one of the most popular router<\/a> manufacturers in the US, but the company is facing a potential ban due to security concerns about its links to China. A December report from The Wall Street Journal<\/a> revealed that the US Commerce, Defense, and Justice Departments are investigating TP-Link, though no evidence of deliberate wrongdoing has yet emerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a US company,\u201d Jeff Barney, president of TP-Link told WIRED, \u201cWe have no affiliation with TP-Link Tech, which focuses on mainland China, and we can prove our separateness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigation was sparked by a letter from<\/a> John Moolenaar, a Republican for Michigan, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat of Illinois. Both are on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. They outlined concerns that Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be able to compromise TP-Link\u2019s routers more easily than other brands and thereby infiltrate US systems, and that TP-Link is subject to Chinese law, meaning it can be forced to hand over sensitive US information by Chinese intelligence officials.<\/p>\n

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