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Russia's Kaspersky threatened to 'rub out' rival, email shows
- neves 11y agoFirst news: Anonymous sources accuse Russian company that frequently ashames USA government of being evil. Second news: Evil Russian company is competitive to competitor that poaches its employers. It is hard to create more non-events than this. Maybe in the next one they will say that Karpesky sells anti-virus software.
- hackuser 11y agoI don't think that accurately characterizes the situation. The article says Kapersky sabotaged competitors' antimalware products (and thereby sabotaged probably millions of end-user computers).
- sergers 11y agoI think it does some up the situation. Kaspersky blasted the equation group which hinted at it being US orgs part of it. Since then there have been numerous articles against kaspersky, imo trying to make them look bad. There was a previous article recently posted on HN which basically about the same thing. Kaspersky felt other companies were stealing it's virus signatures/heuristics so they created false positives to discredit the company, which would prove they were taking their info (cause they would flag as false positives based on the bad info they took). I don't think anyone has proof they actually did this, and other av vendors are keeping quiet, which might mean nothing happened or they are upto their own no-good deeds they don't want brought to light
- chc 11y agoFirstly, I'm not sure how Kaspersky "frequently ashames USA government." I kind of doubt Kaspersky is very big on the radar of most people in the US government, and the most outrage they tend to generate over here is gripes about their software. Secondly, attempting to sabotage your competitor's product goes way beyond "being competitive." Even Kaspersky said so in their statement about the accusations.