Federal agencies are backing plans to ban top-selling home internet router because of national security fears: report
Source: The Independent
Thursday 30 October 2025 13:40 EDT
Top federal agencies are reportedly hoping to ban future sales from one of the most popular home internet router brands in the U.S., citing China-related national security concerns.
The Commerce Department has reportedly proposed banning sales of devices from California-based TP-Link Systems, a company whose products make up over a third of the home router market, according to The Washington Post.
The Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense all were involved in crafting the proposal, sources said. The Commerce Department has not carried out that proposed plan thus far, and could still decide against such a step. The Independent has contacted these agencies for comment.
Officials are concerned that the company, which was recently spun out from the Chinese firm TP-Link Technologies, remains subject to influence from Beijing, putting the data of Americans at risk. It continues to own some of its former parent company’s assets in China, per the paper.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/internet-router-ban-tp-link-china-b2855501.html
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Either that or people in his orbit have large positions in Linksys or one of their other competitors.
I'd say the SEC should check today's 'shorts' on the stock exchanges, but of course, the SEC is just another arm of The Trump Corporation, so ... little chance they'll see anything suspect.
BTW, with even a modicum of proper regulation and testing of the products before they go to market, it would be VERY easy to detect if China was up to something nefarious with these routers. They're not magical boxes of wonder that nobody really understands how they work 
