Ahh, the good old witch hunt with a touch of Putin demonisation.
Yea, you get allegations about Kaspersky doing something bad, but like the other cyber stuff (remember the scandal surrounding companies that made software for voting machines?) it has not been substantiated in the end, or in some cases they were outright debunked.
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Demonisation of Putin never gets old for some reason, heh.
P.p.s. if you read the article:
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and the New York Times report that outlines Russia’s intrusion stops short of stating that the company colluded with Russian intelligence.
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But the North Korea incident shows that antivirus companies can be compromised without any sort of backroom agreement.
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You would notice that the article is not about Russian Goverment coercing Kaspersky into conducting illegal/unethical activities, but about the danger of AV software in general based on how it is a single point of failure due to its special status/rights on the system and the projection of domestic US experience:
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"We know that the US government has solicited participation from technology vendors in the United States in the past, whether through official channels or more covert mechanisms such as National Security Letters," says Kuzma. "There's no reason why other foreign governments cannot compel the same type of cooperation from companies that are based in their territory."
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