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Kaspersky has been in FSB's pocket since forever. Banning hostile foreign intelligence from providing security services to your country is one of the very rare
by golergka 2y ago
Kaspersky has been in FSB's pocket since forever. Banning hostile foreign intelligence from providing security services to your country is one of the very rare pieces of regulation even a staunch minarchist would support.
- ahofmann 2y agoFollowing this argument, the whole world needs to stop using software from the USA (and china, and Russia and ...).
- tptacek 2y agoOK. They can do that.
- jiggawatts 2y agoNorth Korea makes their own operating system for this reason.
- jowea 2y agoThe whole world is not hostile to the USA to the same level as USA/Russia, although if they're concerned about espionage yes they may need to. I'm actually a bit surprised the Snowden leaks didn't lead to a bigger push for FOSS in government, but I guess there's a cost/benefit analysis and fully keeping yourself out of reach of the US tech industry is probably too hard to be worth in general.
- kube-system 2y agoNot the whole world, just competing powers. And if you've been watching what China and Russia have been doing domestically to prop up their own tech sectors, that's exactly what they are doing.