TP-LINK is probably going to get banned in the US.

[Novostranger]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tp-link-routers-may-be-banned-in-the-us-next-year-what-that-means-for-you/

Reminder that over 65% of Americans have TP-LINK routers. This could actually ♥♥♥♥ up the entire internet in America.

Their reasons on why TP-LINK should be banned in America are because of supposed relations between massive Chinese cyberattacks and their routers. Ridiculous.

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Happy Christmas

[Dr. Weird]

TP?

[Tonepoet]

Your own source rightly points out that a ban on existing routers in people's homes is unlikely to happen. I sincerely doubt the government is going to go into martial law raiding two thirds of the homes in the U.S.A. over a chinsey wi-fi router.

Even if it did happen, they'd probably do it like they did the analogue to digital broadcast transition with coupons for a free upgrade when you trade in your old one because that's really the most effective way to eradicate them from general circulation.

Plus most of the internet people care about isn't direct peer to peer connections anyway.

[Ghost Robertson]

Well i mean a lot of peoples routers are probably getting out of date anyway.

My router is 1 gigabit but all 3 of my computers are 2.5 gigabit, maybe it's time for an upgrade.

[Novostranger]

引用自 Tonepoet：

Your own source rightly points out that a ban on existing routers in people's homes is unlikely to happen. I sincerely doubt the government is going to go into martial law raiding two thirds of the homes in the U.S.A. over a chinsey wi-fi router.

Even if it did happen, they'd probably do it like they did the analogue to digital broadcast transition with coupons for a free upgrade when you trade in your old one because that's really the most effective way to eradicate them from general circulation.

Plus most of the internet people care about isn't direct peer to peer connections anyway.

Btw tplink routers are godlike

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

'♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the entire internet in America' actually sounds like a good ending, but unfortunately this is meaningless fearmongering like every other form of contemporary media

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引用自 Novostranger：

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tp-link-routers-may-be-banned-in-the-us-next-year-what-that-means-for-you/

Reminder that over 65% of Americans have TP-LINK routers. This could actually ♥♥♥♥ up the entire internet in America.

Their reasons on why TP-LINK should be banned in America are because of supposed relations between massive Chinese cyberattacks and their routers. Ridiculous.

A person who lives in South America worrying about things happening in North America.
I'm sure the United States appreciates your concern.

[Philco7a]

lol they ban everything from China the US GDP will be fifty bucks.

[Novostranger]

引用自 Philco7a：

lol they ban everything from China the US GDP will be fifty bucks.

More like 50 cent

[Blitz4]

引用自 Novostranger：

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tp-link-routers-may-be-banned-in-the-us-next-year-what-that-means-for-you/

Reminder that over 65% of Americans have TP-LINK routers. This could actually ♥♥♥♥ up the entire internet in America.

Their reasons on why TP-LINK should be banned in America are because of supposed relations between massive Chinese cyberattacks and their routers. Ridiculous.

bout time

remember the BSOD and how long it took to fix? infrastructure takes forever and in homes of citizens it might never get fixed or replaced. router mfrs should be required to publish security updates forever, unless they list an end of life date which tmk they dont

hell look at android phones. updated for 3 years and then they're eWaste. even trump in 2016 went into office with an outdated phone, meaning it might've been able to be hacked easily if there was a known exploit.

yet the problem is bigger than you can imagine. i'll share two vids. remember china hacked a US jets in flight and swiped the blueprint of it and that became the blueprint for their next gen jets.

first vid is just talk about China and it mentions a bit about digital warfare. second vid is evidence of precisely what is possible with digital war between states.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyE55eB9Afc


https://watchdocumentaries.com/zero-days/

[Blitz4]

btw. only buy routers that are updated. they're the most important piece of hardware to update on your network and i bet most people don't or never have updated the firmware on theirs... think about botnets and ♥♥♥♥. then watch that documentary above and you'll see what i'm on about. it's serious ♥♥♥♥.

[Novostranger]

引用自 Blitz4：

btw. only buy routers that are updated. they're the most important piece of hardware to update on your network and i bet most people don't or never have updated the firmware on theirs... think about botnets and ♥♥♥♥. then watch that documentary above and you'll see what i'm on about. it's serious ♥♥♥♥.

Opendns?

[Electric Cupcake]

I have one of those. When it wears out, I'm either going to set up the Raspberry Pi that I'm not using as an OpenWRT router, or try the Invizbox Pro 2.

I quite like the Invizbox Pro 1, but it's slow as molasses and has rather poor range, unextended.

[Blitz4]

引用自 Novostranger：

引用自 Blitz4：

btw. only buy routers that are updated. they're the most important piece of hardware to update on your network and i bet most people don't or never have updated the firmware on theirs... think about botnets and ♥♥♥♥. then watch that documentary above and you'll see what i'm on about. it's serious ♥♥♥♥.

Opendns?

huh?

I heard one estimate that 90% of exploits are undetected. if an expert wants to get in they'll get in. they have to know you're worth it. the question is are people doing the bare minimum and protecting against those 10% that the world knows about, not just the pro's, then yea you're on the right course.

like imagine how many people have a d-link cable modem provided by their ISP. the same ISP's that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over the government in the telecommunications act of 1996 and lied to everyone's face in order to get legalized regional monopolies and entertainment monopolies. the government held up their promise, but did the ISP's and the entertainment conglomerates?

like imagine if windows had a 10/10 exploit, that ♥♥♥♥ would be fixed in under 2 months or so. if a router had a 10/10 exploit. it might never be fixed. why? cause so many people have to manually update their routers and/or they're not supported by the mfr any longer.


here's another tool:

https://www.pfsense.org/


like legally the ISP's can sell your browsing history. no lie. which is why VPN's are necessary. yet so many sites fight them, even google. if ISP's can sell your data and provide you with s a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ router that gets you hacked and they don't have to fulfill their end of the telecommunications act. what do they actually do? they should be in charge of securing the nation.

https://www.routersecurity.org/bugs.php

[Катюша]

Twilight Princess' version of Link doesn't deserve to be banned.