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> Russia IS the enemy In what sense?
In a very direct sense. It's a de facto totalitarian dictatorship. Its proliferation harms human rights, poses real danger to Ukraine, claims lives. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Ukrainian_cr... , corruption also claims lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eO8ZHfV4fk )
Our company uses the enterprise version of Kaspersky. But if we drop this over surveillance issues then it would be a pretty hypocritical to switch to AV software from the USA. Since they are proven to do the exact thing that Kaspersky is now suspected / blamed of doing. So, fellow Europeans, what now? Avast? Any other options? EDIT: Ok so I found a pretty useful Wiki list[1] with European made AV products. I haven't…
Our company uses the enterprise version of Kaspersky. But if we drop this over surveillance issues then it would be a pretty hypocritical to switch to AV software from the USA. Since they are proven to do the exact thing that Kaspersky is now suspected / blamed of doing. So, fellow Europeans, what now? Avast? Any other options? EDIT: Ok so I found a pretty useful Wiki list[1] with European made AV products. I haven't…
Use Linux :) there is no other option
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Europeans had a few. There was StudiVZ in Germany and tuenti in Spain. Once Facebook arrived with localised versions on the European market it destroyed all of the clones. Talk about network effects.
But search engines and email services? Operating systems? Europe is really not on top of this game.
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Way down this thread, so time to ask the question: Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military? I've always found it suspicious that Russia and China created their own social networks, email providers, and search engines. Almost like they know the power of a capable search engine or social network for intelligence gathering purposes. Google and US anti-virus…
> Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military? Doubtful. Keep in mind that in Russia / China the state has a lot more leverage against commercial companies. It's very easy for the state to effectively shut any non-complying company, not to mention far worse (Russia and China have thrown businessowners into jail for no reason before). > Almost like they know…
I guess Kaspersky is rumoured to be to the Russian government what Apple / Google / Microsoft / Facebook are proven to be to the US government. Secret FISA courts rule away all of your basic privacy rights? Fear not. Russia is the enemy.
Correct. Russia IS the enemy. Secret warrants by a secret court is also the enemy. One is just more important and dangerous than the other (look out of the window). Perfect example of whataboutism BTW.
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I'm not a malware developer but you can tell an AntiVirus not to scan a specific directory so that could of been completely avoided. You can also tell an antivirus what not to send over to the AV developers / company as far as I remember. I stopped using antiviruses years back, but I remember this from when I would download cheating tools I would define a folder for those tools, some of which I had the source code to…
I'll cut you some slack because you stated you're not a malware developer. But even if you're a normal developer, you should know that telling software to do something does not mean that the software will do that something. When the software in question is subject to being controlled by adversaries, all guarantees go out of the window.
Our company uses the enterprise version of Kaspersky. But if we drop this over surveillance issues then it would be a pretty hypocritical to switch to AV software from the USA. Since they are proven to do the exact thing that Kaspersky is now suspected / blamed of doing. So, fellow Europeans, what now? Avast? Any other options? EDIT: Ok so I found a pretty useful Wiki list[1] with European made AV products. I haven't…
Hire a team from your native country to manually inspect each packet before it is passed on to the client machines. This kind of Biological neural network isn't always the fastest approach but you can be sure it isn't forwarding all your traffic to the government.
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Way down this thread, so time to ask the question: Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military? I've always found it suspicious that Russia and China created their own social networks, email providers, and search engines. Almost like they know the power of a capable search engine or social network for intelligence gathering purposes. Google and US anti-virus…
> Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military? Doubtful. Keep in mind that in Russia / China the state has a lot more leverage against commercial companies. It's very easy for the state to effectively shut any non-complying company, not to mention far worse (Russia and China have thrown businessowners into jail for no reason before). > Almost like they know…
That is pretty disingenuous. Noncompliance with an NSL is a quick route to contempt charges. On top of that, the gag order prevents you from explaining your position to shareholders or customers.
This coercion makes it much more straightforward for most businesses to simply comply with US demands, unless you voluntarily shutter your company, e.g. Lavabit.