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Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC

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Post by gamblor956 »

ridgered4 wrote: post #242
gamblor956 wrote: post #194

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MS Defender used to automatically scan USB devices when plugged in but that's not the default anymore (and AFAIK hasn't been for a few years since one of the major updates); you now have to enable it somewhere non-intuitive (like the Policy Editor?).

That's a really bizarre choice of default setting.

Not really, when you consider that there are tens of thousands of USB devices that work with Windows, many of which can operate like a flash drive even though they aren't (like cameras). I can imagine MS disabling this feature by default due to the headaches involved.

Notably, autolaunching USB drives is also no longer the default option for USB devices. The user has to specifically choose what action happens when the device is first plugged in (and by default, that choice only applies to the current instance; the user must manually choose to have the choice apply the next time the device is plugged in).

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Post by laurent92 »

saiya-jin wrote: post #243
naoqj wrote: post #187

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I, as non-US citizen, thus having sub-human rights in eyes of every US 3-letter agency, still prefer very much US approach to, well, practically any matter compared to Russian one. For Russians, they really don't like anybody else. All that slavic closeness is crap as we can see in Ukraine and elsewhere. Heck, they don't care about other Russians neither, just a cannon fodder and poor fuckers to exploit and then thro…

It would help US to condemn Colin Powell for brandishing supposed proof of WMD at the UN Counsel in 2003, which they never found after invasion.

It would help for the US to stop Predator attacks. Most of the world is convinced that they are illegal and illegitimate.

And as a French person, I preferred Trump, because he didn’t trigger any new war and he calmed down Little Rocket Man. He even shook his hand! And donated 100% of his salary to charities! Biden is back and the war is back: Bad negociation tactics, Hunter Biden shenanigans with billions transferred as a chairman of an oil company in Ukraine, female ministers of defense in all of Europe, focus on having transgender soldiers, so Putin believed we were weak and the field was open. The result is a war.

We could have avoided this war.

PS: I’m not saying female ministers of war are incompetent, I’m saying they make no-one afraid. It was way more frightening when Krouchtchev’s general responsible for the nuclear button was a crazy alcoholic: When you’re faced with an madlad, you take him seriously.

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Post by purplediamond »

libraryatnight wrote: post #125
older wrote: post #66

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Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987. That was a definition of a dirtbag in Soviet time.

I can't find the actual profile on Wired anymore, but I found it on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20140423055434/http://www.wired.... and also a sort of response to it https://web.archive.org/web/20140426095603/http://www.wired.... After I read that profile I decided I'd never use the software. I remember before news spread of the Russian troll farms being real, people talked about it like "who wo…

Is hackernews cutting off links now. Neither of your links work. End of line contains "/http://wired/"

Congratulations to both of you for uninstalling TikTok :) Facebook is next.

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Post by kube-system »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #123

Quick question - where does the FCC derive this authority?

The FCC has the authority to regulate how federal funding for telecommunication is used.

Those who do not use federal telecom subsidy funds are not affected.

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Post by sokoloff »

syshum wrote: post #279
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #235

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> explain how they are not equivalent Press. Political competition. Courts. Broadly, the rule of law. Nobody is perfect at any of these. But if the FSB wants a code change in Kaspersky, they're getting that code change. There is no independent press to report it. No opposition incentivized to call them out on it. No court in which they could lose.

hmm FISA, Gag orders, National Secrecy laws, etc all exist in US law, so tell me again how they are different? Also, as an American Citizen, who has more power to put me the individual in a cage, the FSB or NSA?

Who has more practical power to force code into a security product that runs in a privileged context, without anyone finding out? I think it’s not the NSA.

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Post by chess_buster »

UnFleshedOne wrote: post #246
viktorcode wrote: post #193

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It doesn't matter. The fact is Kaspersky (the company) can be coerced by the Russian government to exploit their highly privileged systems access to millions of computers around the globe. I don't expect Kaspersky (the person) to play hero under these circumstances.

Don't expect him to be _able_ to play hero even if he wanted.

In my opinion, that's the right way to look at it.

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Post by kergonath »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #267
kergonath wrote: post #172

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“That guy who killed someone is not that bad, because the other guy punched someone and everybody seems happy with that”. Bullshit. The US is an imperialist, sometimes oppressive pseudo-democracy, but nothing like that mafia-run kleptocracy.

This is a very americo-centric view.... Most of the world consideres americans the "bad guys", and a lot worse than the russians. You can start with southern america and middle east. Then the balkans (where putin is doing the same as you guys did with kosovo). Even parts of africa would have a say. Here in the balkans, people were actively rooting for trump in the last two elections, because they were afraid Hillary…

You are way off base. First, I am not American and well aware of the imperialist and oppressive aspects. I would be quite happy to see the American hegemony disappear, but not for it to be replaced by Russian aggression or Chinese imperialism.

> Most of the world consideres americans the "bad guys", and a lot worse than the russians. You can start with southern america and middle east.

Their absurd support for tin pot dictators in South America was and is reprehensible, and the whole Iraq war was morally bankrupt and threw fuel on a fire that we’ll be trying to put out for decades. And yet, nothing the American did in the Middle East came anywhere near Aleppo or Mariupol. Or the Holodomor. Or the Prague spring.

> Then the balkans (where putin is doing the same as you guys did with kosovo).

Come on, now. You cannot possibly compare Sarajevo (with an actual genocide being carried out, surprisingly, by the side with Russian support) with the charade Putin used as a fig leaf to invade Ukraine. This is pure propaganda. The region would not be any better today had the ethnically cleansing gone all the way to the end, quite the contrary. Europe should have had grown a spine and actually done something.

> Here in the balkans, people were actively rooting for trump in the last two elections, because they were afraid Hillary would start a new war here...

Well, maybe you did, but that’s not what I heard from my greek friends. The Americans are not complicated to understand, they are going where their interests are. What the hell would they do in the Balkans? That is just stupid.

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #264
viktorcode wrote: post #193

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It doesn't matter. The fact is Kaspersky (the company) can be coerced by the Russian government to exploit their highly privileged systems access to millions of computers around the globe. I don't expect Kaspersky (the person) to play hero under these circumstances.

So can microsoft, adobe, google, etc. Even without them, NSA can intercept the hardware and put their software on those boxes... wikileaks showed a bunch of stuff NSA did. If you're a valuable target, it's basically choosing if you want to be spied on by the russians or the americans. (or installing linux, and hoping for the best).

This is true, tho installing linux is probably not going to make a difference if you are a target. But the USA can issue national security letters through the FISA court with gag orders that keep the NSL secret. Not only that, but the major US companies have lucrative government contracts such that it can be in their interest to provide the US government with certain kinds of access without being compelled through national security letters.

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Post by alimov »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #280
alimov wrote: post #247

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While the methods may differ, is this not true of any governments intelligence agencies? Whether or not there is press/courts/rule of law. For press to report on an event they have to be aware of it, for courts to intervene they also have to be aware of it, for rule of law to matter then no part of a government can operate outside of it in any manner, so no extrajudicial actions either.

The point of press/courts/rule of law is that at least you have a chance. Without those, no chance. That matters. The US is not some monolithic entity. It's almost weirdly schizophrenic. Yes, the government will e.g. use some super-shaky legal arguments to justify torture ahem "enhanced interrogation", but on the other hand Freedom of Information Act requests still get processed. Yes, the NSA will spy on US citizens,…

> The point of press/courts/rule of law is that at least you have a chance. Without those, no chance. That matters.

I agree with you.

> Knight-Ridder did some fantastic and courageous investigative journalism debunking the US casus belli in the run-up to the Iraq Invasion. It didn't stop the invasion, but they were recognized later. Can we imagine that happening in Russia?

Thanks I’ll check it out

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