The Commerce Department has proposed barring sales of TP-Link products, citing a national security risk from ties to China, people familiar with the matter said.

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    10 hours ago

    Honestly, even limiting it to, say, the WiFi network, having a default admin login is not great.

    Like, Android isolates apps from the rest of your Android system, but not from touching the rest of the network. If any random app I install on my phone can reflash my WAP’s firmware or something like that, that’s not great.