The chairman of the ‘Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party’ John Moolenar, and the ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi have formally requested the Commerce Department and other agencies to investigate Chinese-made networking devices, particularly those made by TP-Link, regarding the potential cybersecurity risk they pose due to their unusual degree of vulnerabilities and other reasons mentioned in the letter.
The other reason, as mentioned in the letter, is the company’s compliance requirement with the Chinese government as per their law. The congressmen said,” Companies like TP-Link are required to provide data to the PRC (People’s Republic of China) government and otherwise comply with the demands of its national security apparatus.”
The members jointly requested that the investigation be completed by the end of August. Hence, once the investigation is complete, we should receive information from the Department of Commerce and its actions against any potential threat if warranted.
I think it’s fine, this community is not what I would call “alive and kicking”. :)
All the more reason to try to keep it on-topic. If things are still just starting, it’s quite easy to derail it by trying to push content that is not necessarily the main focus of the community.
Edit: I updated the rules to be more specific about it.
I respectfully disagree that posting this article undermines the functional quality of this community.
All the best.
Thanks for the submission, but it feels a bit off-topic for this community, no?
Communities on selfhosted.forum are meant for community support and exchange of information, and less about general news.
