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I enjoyed the article, but explicitly asking anti-virus companies if they have complied with such a government request seems silly. It's like asking a politici
by hawkharris 13y ago
I enjoyed the article, but explicitly asking anti-virus companies if they have complied with such a government request seems silly.
It's like asking a politician, "Have you ever been unfaithful to your wife?"
"What's that? No? Okay, well you heard the man. Time to move on."
- Nimi 13y agoAgreed. This sounds like a debate that could be settled by testing different antivirus products (and their old versions) against state-sponsored malware.
- privong 13y agoI'm not sure that's a good test; any publicly known example of state-sponsored is almost certainly in current antivirus software. Since they're publicly known, there's no advantage to continuing to be sneaky about it — it would certainly tip people off that the companies were under the thumb of a government. And testing older version probably won't help, because you can't prove that the company knew about them before the rest of us did.