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Kaspersky took the US allegations very seriously, and moved all of their data collection and processing for the US (and quite a few other nations) to Switzerlan
by somenameforme 2y ago
Kaspersky took the US allegations very seriously, and moved all of their data collection and processing for the US (and quite a few other nations) to Switzerland. [1] They then made the facilities accessible to US and other "partners" to inspect the code at said facilities, compile it from source (to compare distributed binaries), audit their data handling/processing procedures, and so on.
It'd be pretty easy to see if the software was missing Russian state malware both by inspecting the code, or simply installing it on a test machine and then running the scan. If this were the case, it's highly likely the news would be repeating it 24/7. So it seems safe to assume it's doing its job well.
[1] - https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2020_kaspersky-completes-its-data-processing-relocation-to-switzerland-and-opens-new-transparency-center-in-north-america https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2020_kaspersk...
- creshal 2y agoThe audits are a joke (iso 27001 means nothing in practice, as anyone working in a 27001 certified company can tell you), and what has been in the news is that the only foreign partner who signed up to this clown show promptly went bankrupt in 2022: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cyber-nb-shutting-down-1.6367234 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cyber-nb-shutti... So what, exactly, is this press release supposed to prove?
- somenameforme 2y agoThat Kaspersky gave the US every imaginable means of ensuring everything was on the up and up, and that the allegations were unjustified. Yet the US seemingly had no interest whatsoever in investigating their own claims.