Buying items that are both internet-connected and have chipsets from China is never a good idea. Yes, plenty of non-Chinese products have massive security flaws by design, but Chinese products are the worst of the lot.
I’m currently trying to buy a laptop, and am running into this issue. Worse, it’s very hard in some cases to find out where something is actually made, especially when it comes to finding out where the chipsets come from (It might be assembled in, say, Ireland, but using Chinese chipsets).
I’m fine with stuff from Taiwan, but not China. (I also can’t stand anything that spies on my systems, no matter by whom, and that, alas, includes modern Windows systems).
TP-Link makes a lot of great products. Are Americans capable of making what TP-Link does at a price people can still afford?
Buying items that are both internet-connected and have chipsets from China is never a good idea. Yes, plenty of non-Chinese products have massive security flaws by design, but Chinese products are the worst of the lot.
I’m currently trying to buy a laptop, and am running into this issue. Worse, it’s very hard in some cases to find out where something is actually made, especially when it comes to finding out where the chipsets come from (It might be assembled in, say, Ireland, but using Chinese chipsets).
I’m fine with stuff from Taiwan, but not China. (I also can’t stand anything that spies on my systems, no matter by whom, and that, alas, includes modern Windows systems).