Eugene Kapersky is big fan of going to bathhouses with Russian FSB officials. Also unlike many other Russian companies he refused to relocate offices out of Russia when full-scale war began.
Good riddance. EU should do the same.
Good riddance. EU should do the same.
Or are there “good” intelligence officers and “bad”?
The moment some backdoor is discovered in Kaspersky, it is done as a product all over the world. That’s the best protection about any alleged government connections exploiting the software.
The notion of open market, competition, democracy is only exercised when it is your products that should undermine the locals.
The moment it is not, you start hearing stuff like “overcapacity” (what a nice term) of china manufacturing — what a hypocrisy.
As soon as US starts loosing the positions, it wriggles just as any “dictatorship” protecting its interest by quickly dismissing the free market as it needs.
What do you mean as "backdoor"? Any anti-virus software is a backdoor.
Anti-virus software is rootkit on your system.
It can literally upload any file on your disk to the cloud.
This is by design and this is why you dont want to run Russian state-controlled company software on your system.
Windows Defender do have automatic sample submission, but according to documentation only automatically submit files that are "safe" to not no contain PII:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/specify-...
It might request user approval to submit non-executables, but again we can't know when and why Microsoft might decide to override defaults. Technically data collection pipeline is here.
> We fully believe that … the Russian government is either now using Kaspersky or certainly would be willing to use Kaspersky.
“Highly likely” is a shit of an argument that is exercised quite often lately.
See the problem: there is absolutely no way to tell whatever AV software uploading your sensetive documents to it's servers for legit reasons or because it's spying on you.
I suppose in theory it could contain something that exploits an ability to sidestep the firewall, but then you're in to conspiracy theory land.
Russia is no longer part of open market and it's not a democracy. There is absolutely no reason to make business with any of companies based in there just like there is no reason to work with companies from North Korea.
Companies from Russia like Jetbrains that wanted to work on global market left the country, relocated their staff and closed offices. Kaspersky choose to stay so his company can now work for local market instead and might be sell some AV to North Korea.
Two questions:
1) What is open market for you? Does USA have an open market?
2) What is democracy for you? USA is democracy or just a shade of it to spread propaganda?
> Companies from Russia like Jetbrains that wanted to work on global market left the country
No, global market is not western market - they did it only to get access to western market because they have a lot of users there.
What about abandoning elderly fathers and mothers, etc.? Or should they relocate too?
Or stay whenever you are and sell you services to markets of "friendly countries" like North Korea.
Crucial components in the security profession are trust, and managed risk. Companies that don't pass the sniff test are simply discriminated against - regardless of circumstances.
The US is looking out at the world again and trying to influence it. And the common man is bombarded with western military exceptionalism propaganda. Why would the USA allow any avenue for its currency to flow into a Russian firm? It was only a matter of time for something like this to occur.
Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world. That's economically bad for everyone; just less bad for the US than Russia. The argument that this is designed to help US companies is... crazy.
This is unfortunately not true. Maybe only in the West. Cisco has backdoors since years. Kaspersky just uncovered an Apple backdoor, that's why US is so upset.
For context, I'm not an American or European, and my home country is allied with Russia. That being said, the US is not just like the Russia, no matter how badly Putin wants the world to believe that.
In the current world diplomacy is a joke, countries and their diplomats are unable to find a peaceful solutions. People are dying on both sides ( Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Palestine, ... ) while the world watches.
The media also spread hateful propaganda on all sides of conflicts, politicians make hateful comments. Nobody cares.
For starters US hasn't razed any cities lately to later claim them as their own.
So what's your proposal for how they should do that?
In particular: precisely which of Putin's most recently dictated terms do you think they should force Ukraine to agree to -- in order obtain this "peace" that you say is easily available?
Yes.