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Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987. That was a definition of a dirtbag in Soviet time.
by older 5y ago
Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987. That was a definition of a dirtbag in Soviet time.
- mkbkn 5y agoWhat he could have done then at that time? To not study? To remain illiterate?
- aaomidi 5y agoI know right? Like what the hell kind of criticism is that lol.
- mopsi 5y agoThe kind that understands historic nuance.
- naniwaduni 5y agoThat understands nuance, but not history.
- older 5y agoYou really think the choice was to go to KGB school or remain illiterate? There were a lot of other options to study. Much better options if your want to do science. For one thing, education in Soviet Union was decent and free for everyone. Going to KGB school was a choice, very specific one.
- jonathanstrange 5y agoI know brilliant people from the GDR who studied at Moscow Polytechnic University, they weren't in the KGB or Stasi. You had to be system-conform to study anything, that much is true, but that's still far away from joining the KGB.
- libraryatnight 5y agoI can't find the actual profile on Wired anymore, but I found it on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20140423055434/http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky https://web.archive.org/web/20140423055434/http://www.wired.... and also a sort of response to it https://web.archive.org/web/20140426095603/http://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140426095603/http://www.wired.... After I read that profile I decided I'd never use the software. I remember before news spread of the Russian troll farms being real, people talked about it like "who would do that?" Russia would. I don't think it's their quote - but I remember Penn of Penn & Teller saying about magic something to the effect that the magician does the things that people think "It could be... but who would do all of that work?" This is how I feel about Russia. They will or already are doing the things you think they won't and nothing is beyond being a tool for the state. I don't really like feeding the image of the Russian super villain, but I don't consider it overly paranoid to avoid installing software from hostile nations. Yes I used this same logic to convince my wife to uninstall tiktok.
- purplediamond 5y agoIs hackernews cutting off links now. Neither of your links work. End of line contains "/http://wired/ http://wired/" Congratulations to both of you for uninstalling TikTok :) Facebook is next.
- marvin 5y agoComparison notwithstanding, that's what I felt when I first heard about PRISM. Holy shit, I knew this was all possible, but I hadn't believed that someone actually went through all the effort of doing it.
- jwatt 5y agoThe original Wired links are: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff-kaspersky/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff-kaspersky/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/
- libraryatnight 5y ago
- hamstergene 5y agoWas every 17 years old who attended anything with KGB written on it, really dubbed a dirtbag in the 70-80s? Even knowing there were 100 years of Red Scare this sounds a lot like like a neurotic leap conclusion, I can't imagine KGB's cryptography school teaching teenagers torture skills or something like that.
- older 5y agoEvery single Soviet citizen knew what KGB is and what it stands for. Unlike you I don't need to imagine anything. I remember.