The “war” against the manufacturers of the chinese can be extended to the TP-Link. Two of the members of the Committee of the House of Representatives for the Competition and the Strategic State of the United states, and the Communist Party Chinese have asked the Secretary of the u.s. Department of Commerce (Gina Raimondo) to start an investigation into the company, for the ruterët her to a Wi-Fi connection can pose a risk to national security.
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Republikani John Moolenaar and demokrati Raja Krishnamoorthi write in the letter that the TP-Link is the largest provider of the product to a Wi-Fi connection in the world. According to the data of the year is 2022, it has sold over 160 million products in more than 170 countries.
It is currently the main supplier in the United States, and its products are also used in the military. Some studies have found a large number of main in the ruterat TP-Link. Cyber criminals cyber paid for by the Communist Chinese could exploit the vulnerabilities to enter into the computer of a user of the usa.
About a year ago, an attack of a group of The Typhoon were made against some of the infrastructure in the critical, using the ruterat TP-Link SOHO, in which it was installed, the firmware is modified. Botnet-it was çmontua by the FBI and the us Department of Justice, at the end of January.
The two leaders also stress that TP-Link should also be in accordance with the laws of the local, so that the manufacturer could be liable to provide information to the users in the united states on intelligence, to the chinese.
That is why they require the Secretary of the Department of Commerce to provide an answer until the 30th of August. As it has already happened with Huawei, ZTE and other companies to the chinese, the u.s. government may add to the TP-Link is in the list, the infamous entity, and for this reason and to block the import of the product to a Wi-Fi connection.
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