Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree, I expected this to happen years ago.

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• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The United State only wants American companies to spy on Americans.

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think most countries spie on their citizens and a lot of the same countries probably don’t want other countries doing the same due to possible unwanted intel leaks in government and corporate sectors.

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    • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think most countries spy on their citizens

      we should not be okay with that

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NSA? Notice how fast the Trump shooter’s phone was access? Gotta have those backdoors for spying.

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    • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Maddier1993@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow hot take

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Things are a bit different than im 2014…

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Now houses cost as much as a…well, there’s no way to finish that sentance anymore. People don’t buy houses, governments do. And they raise the rent when they control the whole city.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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)

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The conspiracy theory that Russia is the belligerent in a war against Europe and is actively engaged in cyber espionage?

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• paridoxical@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One side of their business. The other side will continue in the shadows.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which side is that?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The side that’s… Right behind you! Watch out!!

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Russian Batman. Soooooo, like a guy with a black cape, and maybe a rope.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh good. Anyways…

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• andyburke@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  byyyyyeeeeee

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No companies that flag USGov’s malware, please.

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• filister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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