Slight tangent: my perception as a tech person but not a networking professional is that TP-Link became big in consumer network gear very suddenly. It made me w

Slight tangent: my perception as a tech person but not a networking professional is that TP-Link became big in consumer network gear very suddenly. It made me wonder at the time if they got a leg up from the Chinese government, and now with these stories about Huawei I wonder if they're similarly entangled. How much of a white hat effort is there to check what servers these products connect to? Are there (volunteer?/open source?) efforts to watch for suspect behavior or do targeted disassembly of the firmware?