If TP-Link is known to have intentionally installed backdoors in its products, that is news to me. Can you provide a source for that claim?
Vulnerabilities have been found, of course, but that is hardly unique to TP-Link, and the existence of a vulnerability does not imply that it was put there intentionally.
> its public declaration to abandon fixing security flaws for numerous devices still in use
I have several machines that are still running Windows 10 and are (according to the Windows software) not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, let alone for free. The Microsoft software informs me that I will no longer receive security updates on these machines.
When will the US government ban Microsoft products from sale in the US?
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Still, I have much more context on the DJI ban. The law that will place DJI on the FCC's "covered list" states that if DJI is not audited by a (unspecified) US government agency, DJI products will be placed on the covered list and so be ineligible for FCC certification starting (IIRC) Jan 1 2026. In other words, the law was cleverly written such that nobody actually needs to do an audit to determine what nasty things DJI is actually getting up to; if nobody raises their hand, the ban will happen automatically.
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Do not take me for an enthusiastic supporter of DJI, TP-Link, other Chinese companies, or the way America's political and business leaders have generally pissed away our technological advantage over China in the name of enriching themselves in the present (now past). I am, in fact, livid. But we will not dig ourselves out of this hole by becoming a backwater where Americans' relationship with consumer technology is as if they are living in a sanctioned country.
If TP-Link is known to have intentionally installed backdoors in its products, that is news to me. Can you provide a source for that claim?
Vulnerabilities have been found, of course, but that is hardly unique to TP-Link, and the existence of a vulnerability does not imply that it was put there intentionally.
> its public declaration to abandon fixing security flaws for numerous devices still in use
I have several machines that are still running Windows 10 and are (according to the Windows software) not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, let alone for free. The Microsoft software informs me that I will no longer receive security updates on these machines.
When will the US government ban Microsoft products from sale in the US?
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Still, I have much more context on the DJI ban. The law that will place DJI on the FCC's "covered list" states that if DJI is not audited by a (unspecified) US government agency, DJI products will be placed on the covered list and so be ineligible for FCC certification starting (IIRC) Jan 1 2026. In other words, the law was cleverly written such that nobody actually needs to do an audit to determine what nasty things DJI is actually getting up to; if nobody raises their hand, the ban will happen automatically.
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Do not take me for an enthusiastic supporter of DJI, TP-Link, other Chinese companies, or the way America's political and business leaders have generally pissed away our technological advantage over China in the name of enriching themselves in the present (now past). I am, in fact, livid. But we will not dig ourselves out of this hole by becoming a backwater where Americans' relationship with consumer technology is as if they are living in a sanctioned country.