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Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?

Three separate government departments are investigating TP-Link, so someone either tipped the Fed off and you (and the public) know nothing, or this is simply a witch hunt.

Since I know for a fact I can’t trust anyone commenting anywhere on the internet as a credible source, I’m hoping those departments who once were independent of the Executive control and free of Trump corruption and are now filled with human excrement yes-men MAGA regarded morons, i will hold my anger until we know more.

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bilb@lem.monster ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The US government has something of a credibility crisis, doesn’t it? (And I don’t think it started with Trump, though he makes it worse.)

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The best that they’ve got is that TP-Link is competitive on pricing. Oh no they’re not bilking consumers and still make enough money to function, that must mean something shady is happening!

Also, the argument that some models force you to log in, sure, if you’re a technically un-inclined dingus. If you are technically inclined, literally nothing is stopping you from installing something like OpenWRT/DD-WRT/FreshTomato on your TP-Link router and bypassing the login requirement entirely by replacing the firmware with an open source variant (note: DD-WRT isn’t actually fully open like OpenWRT and FreshTomato). The point being that their two major arguments are defeated pretty damn simply.

If I can avoid logging in by installing fresh firmware of my own, and the only other major argument they have is that they’re selling at lower prices then competitors… well, that’s pretty weak tea.

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- BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Which do you prefer FreshTomato or WRT ones?
  
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  - SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I haven’t tried FreshTomato, just know it exists. I used to roll DD-WRT but I’ve moved to OpenWRT because I prefer code that is auditable.
    
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Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US

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