Netgear Accused by Rival of China Smear To Fan Security Fear (msn.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/19/1350201/netgear-accused-by-rival-of-china-smear-to-fan-security-fear
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/netgear-accused-by-rival-of-china-smear-to-stoke-security-fear/ar-AA1QHgJN
> California-based TP-Link says it may take a sales hit of more than $1 billion because of erroneous reports that the networking company's technology has been "infiltrated" by Beijing. In a lawsuit, TP-Link claims its competitor, Netgear, [1]orchestrated a smear by planting false claims with journalists and internet influencers with the goal of scaring off customers.
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> Closely held TP-Link, which makes wireless routers, alleges in a complaint filed Monday that Netgear's campaign "threatens injury to well over a billion dollars in sales" and violates a 2024 settlement of a patent fight. That accord, in which TP-Link agreed to pay Netgear $135 million, includes a provision that the public company promises not to disparage its rival, according to the suit in Delaware federal court.
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> The suit comes as TP-Link faces growing scrutiny in Washington over national-security issues. US lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern that TP-Link's wireless equipment could be exploited by Chinese hackers following a series of attacks on its routers.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/netgear-accused-by-rival-of-china-smear-to-stoke-security-fear/ar-AA1QHgJN
Netgear vs. Snowden (Score:1)
It's interesting that there seems to be more paranoia over fears that the Chinese government may possibly have backdoors in network gear, than there is over US companies that we know for a fact have NSA backdoors in their network gear.
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Plus Larry Ellison is cheeto's buddy. They made plans for snatching up TikTok back in 2020. [1]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/1... [cnbc.com]
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/19/trump-says-he-has-approved-tiktok-oracle-deal-in-concept.html
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Maybe it's because people already know or, at least, suspect NSA backdoors in Windows. The network gear is a moot point.
Demotional Damages (Score:1)
Bloatware on a cheap PC? You must fine-tune the game-ready news on GeForce Experience.
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100% projection.
The US government (ICE) tramples on peoples rights daily. Yet they never shut up about what China is supposedly doing. I fear my government much more than one on the other side of the planet. If the rights of undesirables can be violated then they certainly have no qualms about violating yours.
They also never shut up about religion but I can't find any bible passages relating to rounding people up into camps.
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Which is so clueless it is endlessly funny. Example: Some years ago I had a call with a well-known US maker of thin clients. There were some security concerns. Then they brought in their senior software/firmware people, which turned out to be located in Shanghai. So much for "made in the US".
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The only laptops I'd consider to have even half decent security are Lenovo ones, and of course Lenovo is a Chinese company.
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AmiMoJo is a frequent spewer of CCP and Russian propaganda. Just look at the most frequent contributors to /. and you'll see a bunch of them.
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I'm more worried that China would brick TP-Link routers en masse as a sort of hybrid warfare tactic if, for example, the situation in Taiwan goes kinetic than I am that the NSA is going to gather any info I care about.
(Assuming there are actually backdoors in TP-Link routers. I don't know.)
Editors (Score:2)
aren't.
Netgear used to be good (Score:4, Interesting)
Then their products turned to shit both on the hardware reliability side and on the software side. Seems their corporate morals are of equal quality. Hopefully this will kill them.
Sounds Plausible (Score:2)
Frankly, I would not doubt TP-Link's assertion for a second.
But, how will they prove that Netgear did it?
Also, isn't Netgear also made in China?
Error parsing headline (Score:2)
It needs commas or other punctuation.
Re:Error parsing headline (Score:4, Funny)
Needs parenthesis: (((Netgear) Accused by (Rival)) of (China Smear)) To (Fan Security Fear)
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Hell, the whole synopsis reads like a 8th grader with ADD wrote it.
Didn't Help (Score:2)
> Needs parenthesis: (((Netgear) Accused by (Rival)) of (China Smear)) To (Fan Security Fear)
Sorry, still can't parse; who or what is supposed to be jewish again?
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We don't do commas any more. Slapping together words is the new norm. Forget commas when you're talking about a serial list: Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall.