People worried about routers, meanwhile nearly every damn employee at Intel from the CEO to the janitor is Chinese.
The Intel ME chip is running its own OS on every single Intel chipset, even when the computer or laptop is shut down, and accessible directly through attached Intel WiFi or network cards. With full memory access, with no way to turn it off.
Asking: Chinese the ethnicity, or Chinese the nationality?
And, why exaggerate?
I get the sense of concern for strategic vulnerabilities - I feel that is a valid, and a separate topic to ascribing cause / blame / hypothetical bases for solution-making.
The reality is the only part that matters, the chipsets, are produced in Chinese factories owned by TPLink.
They moved everything that doesn’t matter to the US recently in an effort to give the illusion that they aren’t putting chips manufactured under the control of the Chinese government into the majority of routers used in the US.
I’m not agreeing with banning them, but I can certainly see how it creates significant risks that I would want to mitigate somehow.
I agree with you that they shouldn't be banned, but the US casting aspersions against another country is pretty rich considering the involvement of the CIA, and NSA around the world.
The Intel ME chip is running its own OS on every single Intel chipset, even when the computer or laptop is shut down, and accessible directly through attached Intel WiFi or network cards. With full memory access, with no way to turn it off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
The totality of reassurance we have about it is intel’s promise that they won’t put a backdoor in.