Kaspersky Lab Antivirus Software Is Ordered Off U.S. Government Computers
I've seen lots of opinions here on Kaspersky, curious what your thoughts are on this removal order.
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Maybe I'm being a bit naïve, but isn't this essentially telling the people at Kaspersky and elsewhere "Hey, guys, you have 90 days to do whatever damage you can, because we're closing the door in 91 days."
Why not make the announcement in secret, and on day 91 tell everyone "As of yesterday, no government computers contain any Kaspersky software."
Does it make sense to anyone to telegraph to a potential enemy our strategy of defense?
1) The pot calling the kettle Black?
2) Their software probably identifies too many of the malware tools our intelligence agencies use
3) The company is more interested in doing it right, and cannot be man-handled by the US Intel Agencies
Remember Snowden used Secure Email. That vendor was FORCED to go out of business, because the FBI showed up and said:
Install this virus in your software that will steal Snowdens Decryption Keys... And he basically had to ANNOUNCE he was shutting down.
And he went out of business instead.
They can't play that game in Moscow.
Now, you have to ask... Does the KGB play that game?
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...
https://www.blackhat.com/eu-17/briefi...
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/di...
One thought from security circles is because kaspersky was patching exploits from the nsa/etc as they became known, they aren't liked