If I was in charge over at TP-Link, getting news that tens of thousands of MY company's routers …

Or maybe, don't capture 50% market share in a country that's decided your country of origin is the threat of the decade.

Yeah, that's not the lesson here at all. We're still in an era where you will suffer absolutely zero consequences for security lapses and breaches. Everything that is happening with this administration is simply because it suits American foreign policy or the interests of one of the oligarchs. I mean this with absolutely no hyperbole: the pretense of there being any rule of law for the ultra-wealthy is gone. The White House is openly selling pardons, which have the added effect of cancelling out debts to the US government. Tiktok getting banned? It had nothing to do with "national security". The government simply had less control over the content and the algorithm on Tiktok than they do on Meta and Google platforms. Reading through this article, you have Microsoft pointing the finger at TP-Link. That's... rich. Becvause Microsoft has historically been horrible for security. It would take…

If this was actually the lesson then they'd be banning Fortinet, but it seems these concerns about security don't apply to US listed companies.

Just make them liable for the damages and then they will start caring. This might be one of the only cases where subscription model would work well to cover the maintenance cost.

Until it hits their wallet, they will not do a thing. Now if they were more concerned about longer profits and how this could impact their image, maybe they would change but it is rare you see that nowadays.

People in the comments are defending TPLink for how 'solid' their products are. As someone who just switched to UniFi APs from a Deco Mesh (wired), I have to admit that the difference is deep dark hole and bright sunshine day. Maybe people are comparing to spectrum charter modem combos but I definitely don't see how a router that loses firmware updates in a year can be praised. And it needs reboots so frequently. The Deco has an option now to reboot 'everyday'. This sounds something maybe needed for rare cases where the ISP expects a reboot, but the fact that your routers have that as a feature to keep it stable is a big red flag. I was so used to this that when I started looking for this setting in UniFi OS I had forgotten the part 'networks are not supposed to be rebooted frequently!'.

It occurred to me recently while driving in a high traffic area that (a) this area is congested every single day at this time and (b) if I shipped a piece of software that literally crawled to a stop for a two hour period every morning and a two hour period every evening that I would be deeply ashamed of myself and my work and that if I ran a department that did that I would have no priorities other than fixing this bug until it was fixed. Yet we all know so many industries and products that just do not work like that and in fact the longer something is broken and it doesn’t seem to stop people from using it, the more it is accepted that it is ok for it to remain broken. I think that is somehow just a part of human psychology.

> The real lesson here: If you're successful, don't skimp on security/software! cough Microsoft, Google, Apple cough