Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States
Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States
Russian cybersecurity company and antivirus software provider Kaspersky Lab will start shutting down operations in the United States on July 20.
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.
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.
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.
Wow hot take
Oh good. Anyways..
byyyyyeeeeee
No companies that flag USGov's malware, please.
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.
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
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.
Xenophobia is bad when the fear is unfounded
The fear isn't unfounded with a known hostile country like Russia, it's not like after the Cold war they went "ah well now we're besties"
Maybe they weren't having Kas do anything, or maybe they were.
This is the same country known for jailing peoples families when they don't cooperate, this is the same country that launched an unprovoked war, this is the same country that has been trying to actively take down the US via political games etc (I could go on forever)
The conspiracy theory that Russia is the belligerent in a war against Europe and is actively engaged in cyber espionage?