[jdewerd]

I love cheap and reliable TP-Link routers as much as the next guy, but it's definitely also a security issue. The CCP almost certainly has a backdoor. Maybe a respectable one in the form of an undisclosed bug or the ability to lean on an update provider, but the point stands: it's absolutely a security issue and denying this is cope.

Routers are going to be a bit more expensive and a bit less reliable for a while. We'll live.

[c22]

Probably a better approach than the futile attempt to excise all routers with backdoors or bugs would be to continue the ongoing efforts to make network security router agnostic.