Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>Badged versions of TP-Link routers are supplied to US customers by more than 300 ISPs, making them the most widely used Wi-Fi routers in the country, found in millions of US homes.</p>
<p>It therefore caused grave concern when security researchers at Microsoft found that a hacking group based in China was using vulnerabilities in the devices to carry out cyber attacks in the US. It had been <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/18/most-popular-home-internet-routers-in-us-may-be-banned-as-national-security-risk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">widely expected that the routers would be banned[/url] from sale in the US, but politics seemingly intervened. However, the battle is not yet over …</p>
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Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on