Oh good. Anyways…
byyyyyeeeeee
No companies that flag USGov’s malware, please.
When they’re tied to the Russian government this comes as no surprise. The only thing that surprised me was that it took this long.
I agree, I expected this to happen years ago.
The United State only wants American companies to spy on Americans.
On the other hand if the number keeps going down it helps strengthen hope that it can go down to 0. When these things happen some apparatus gets left behind on how to do it a again for rogue actors inside the country too.
NSA? Notice how fast the Trump shooter’s phone was access? Gotta have those backdoors for spying.
The funny thing is, that whole thing just proved that the spying didn’t work. Trump was still almost killed. So the spying and mass surveillance did still not prevent that.
I guess they should stop violating everybody’s privacy, but obviously they don’t care.
Wow hot take
I would be highly surprised if US antivirus companies aren’t doing pretty much the same as what the US is accusing Kaspersky of doing.
I would not be highly surprised if data collected by Kaspersky were often enough shared with American 3-letter agencies, and data collected by American companies with FSB and GRU and SVR.
It’s like in sci-fi series and such they often show the good guys and the bad guys temporarily uniting against a common threat. Only here the common threat would be some journalists or activists or politicians unpleasant for both, maybe. Or just people of a subculture unpleasant for both even. I’d expect anybody dealing in human rights and such to be a target of such cooperation.
the consequences of xenophobia. i worked for kaspersky usa from 2011 to 2014 and they were great. it shows how much conspiracy theories take root when people believe eugene has ties with the russian government based on his mandatory service back when it was still the ussr.
Things are a bit different than in 2014…
Yeah. Now houses cost as much as a…well, there’s no way to finish that sentance anymore. People don’t buy houses, governments do. And they raise the rent when they control the whole city.
If only we could be more like successful super power Russia
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You’re confusing VC with governments. I doubt this is the first time 🤣
People believe that based on it being legally impossible for such companies to exist in Russia without working with FSB, it’s not a secret.
EDIT: Not even talking about the educational institution he graduated from, which was called high school of KGB when he did that.
Pretty sure it’s not xenophobic to look at “Headquarters Moscow, Russia” and wonder if there’s any possibility that Putin could enforce something upon the company.
It’s not like Russia doesn’t do it to us.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) separately accused the US National Security Agency and company Apple of being behind the attack
It’s fair to hurt Russia’s GDP by choosing not to use Kaspersky [in light of people’s opposition to the war with Ukraine]. That doesn’t mean “xenophobic”.
Edit: Added bracketed clarification
