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> PSA reminder they got caught scanning computers for specific documents at the behest of the Russians No, not exactly. In reality the software worked as inten
by Hawxy 7y ago
> PSA reminder they got caught scanning computers for specific documents at the behest of the Russians
No, not exactly. In reality the software worked as intended and sampled an unidentified program that it considered malicious. It just so happened to be a piece of NSA malware contained on a NSA employee's computer (who re-enabled KAV on his machine after infecting it with a fake Office activator). The US government needed a quick scapegoat and thus they picked the spooky russian company instead of their own employee.
After the allegations were made, Kaspersky opened itself up for third-party auditing of its internal processes, relationship with the government and the events surrounding the above, of which it provides regular updates of:
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/internal-investigation-preliminary-results/19894/ https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/internal-investigation-prelim...
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/transparency-status-updates/23637/ https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/transparency-status-updates/2...
They're also moving all data processing to Switzerland, way outside of the reach of the Russian government.
- elliekelly 7y agoDo you have any sources for this version of events aside from Kaspersky blogs?
- hutzlibu 7y agohttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/09/26/nsa_worker_jailed/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/...
- cat199 7y ago> It just so happened to be a piece of NSA malware contained on a NSA employee's computer (who re-enabled KAV on his machine after infecting it with a fake Office activator). So.. you're saying it's the russians? Is that what I'm hearing? because it sounds like it was the russians.
- Valmar 7y agoHilarious. Just more political warfare bullshit. I'm impressed the Kaspersky is going to these lengths to remove the means for the US government to baselessly criticize simply because they originate from a country that the US loathes. Furthermore, the fact that the Russian government is seemingly okay with this simply adds to everything the Russian government is doing to nullify any of the attempts the US is making to accuse them with unproven lies. One of these days, I hope that the US government loses it's grip on the planet, so that they have to play fair, instead of simply doing whatever they want because they're the de facto singular superpower in terms of military power and intelligence capabilities.