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It's not just security companies. US ISPs are heavily tied to agencies and so are the large corps. The media is state ran just like Russia.
> The media is state ran just like Russia. The whataboutism is out in full force here.
Kaspersky has a very good research team which uncovered a lot of APT hacking groups including Russian ones so I don't see a reason why would they be a threat. But on the other hand Russian state can force them to snoop files and traffic from their clients but I doubt that will happen because everyone would stop using them and they would go bankrupt. Imo US government should use domestic antivirus solutions.
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The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics. One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong lega…
> One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US. That point would be a lot stronger if the US government hadn't demonstrated shocking callousness and disregard for international law in their…
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Levada-Center is the best bet we have: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ But when even Russians who live in Germany are rallying in support of the Russia's war it is reasonable to assume that those ratings are accurate.
No, it really doesn't follow. The subset of russians living in germany who approve of the war has no bearing or relationship to all russians. The "living in germany" part doesn't contradict the same concerns that those living in russia have, as like those living in russia, the emigrated russians likely have: - family still in russia - ties to russia (financial, business, family, etc) - desire to visit russia without…
Ok, let's cut the crap. Is Kaspersky a dirtbag or not? I suspect not, but it is an unfortunate accident he was born in and runs his company from Russia, the government of which is a dirtbag, so, correct me if I am wrong, Kaspersky must be a dirtbag by association, but especially for discovering Stuxnet. Believable, but I think the real reasons Kaspersky is persona non grata is due to having discovered Stuxnet, and Ka…
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I guess that's a fair question, as it does seem to suffice for most people. I have a few reasons: * Extensive use of Chinese sites, which are quite a mess. I think the risks of visiting that part of the Internet are much greater than someone engaged in more typical usage. * Features like firewall are useful for things other than protecting against direct hacks, and I use it to ensure privacy and occasionally even to…
The Windows Defender firewall is pretty sophisticated. I can't imagine what functionality you'd need from a local firewall that it doesn't offer.
Kaspersky was caught helping the Russian government back in 2017. Anyone still using their software in 2022 probably has much larger problems.
The NSA’s own incompetence led them to run an antivirus on a computer with Equation Group spyware on it. Keep in mind that Kaspersky had been fighting Western intelligence services for years at that point. Israeli intelligence actually breached Kaspersky’s network in 2015, no doubt because Kaspersky is the only AV company that actually exposes US-created malware.
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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).
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The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics. One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong lega…
> One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US. That point would be a lot stronger if the US government hadn't demonstrated shocking callousness and disregard for international law in their…