No evidence that TP-Link routers are a Chinese security threat

A US House committee on China’s request for a probe into an alleged security threat posed by routers made by Chinese Wi-Fi giant TP-Link Technologies is based on scant evidence and misleadingly singles out just one company among a host of Chinese manufacturers, experts say.

On August 13, John Moolenaar, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member of the Committee, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo asking her department to investigate TP-Link. The letter alleges that “open-source information” indicates that TP-Link’s products are a security threat.

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Source:: Network World