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Eugene Kaspersky Addresses the allegations against Kaspersky Lab.
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<blockquote data-quote="Parsh" data-source="post: 860441" data-attributes="member: 58090"><p>I believe you said the underlined as a general statement, and not pointing out to Kaspersky. because during installation, when you agree to KSN Network usage (optional), the user is agreeing to partial or full submission of various files</p><p>[SPOILER="KSN participation"]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]233773[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>At the time, a theory prevailed that NSA had directed the whole scenario of the contractor taking one of their weapons (or a dummy) to his home to make this thing happen. Some authority from US wanted the govt to entirely rid of Kaspersky (not that they could not have done it otherwise) and defame it to reduce Kaspersky's might in allied countries where it had been prominent.</p><p>On the other hand, we can neither fully dismiss nor take it on face value, the argued charge that strings of digital code that Kaspersky used, that operate in stealth to find malware, <em>could</em> also be written to search computers for potential classified documents, using keywords or acronyms (as stated in my previous post link).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Comodo does it automatically (once the option is selected) and so does Kaspersky and a few others. I agree that it may be a sensitive matter. However, showing an option to user whether to upload or not, every time a suspicious/unknown file is encountered in real-time can be tedious ... as compared to showing that option every time after an initiated scan. Maybe they brought into practicality or hunger for more data.</p><p>[SPOILER="Comodo File Settings"][ATTACH=full]233774[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p></p><p>You know the first sentence can attract a long debate.</p><p>In the NSA leak case, the drug addict and the authorities would be the same</p><p></p><p></p><p>I had read the SecureList article earlier and it works to clear speculations of Russian conspiracy at least.</p><p>One is expected to not argue, after agreeing to KSN usage, upload of those suspicious/malicious samples from Kaspersky users because Kaspersky proposes that they need it for analysis, but what concerns more is that classified <u>documents</u> were uploaded too. And it may be hard to believe for some - that Eugene did get them just tossed away.</p><p><em>EDIT</em>: As per Kaspersky's statement, the classified non-executable files were compressed with the actual malware inside of a 7zip document, which was subsequently uploaded from user's computer because auto file upload option as per KSN clause was on. That doesn't directly imply that they also upload individual documents to their servers - just staying a fact, on an unbiased note.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parsh, post: 860441, member: 58090"] I believe you said the underlined as a general statement, and not pointing out to Kaspersky. because during installation, when you agree to KSN Network usage (optional), the user is agreeing to partial or full submission of various files [SPOILER="KSN participation"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="381524e9-03b8-4101-8ec1-5c5220beed08.png"]233773[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] At the time, a theory prevailed that NSA had directed the whole scenario of the contractor taking one of their weapons (or a dummy) to his home to make this thing happen. Some authority from US wanted the govt to entirely rid of Kaspersky (not that they could not have done it otherwise) and defame it to reduce Kaspersky's might in allied countries where it had been prominent. On the other hand, we can neither fully dismiss nor take it on face value, the argued charge that strings of digital code that Kaspersky used, that operate in stealth to find malware, [I]could[/I] also be written to search computers for potential classified documents, using keywords or acronyms (as stated in my previous post link). Comodo does it automatically (once the option is selected) and so does Kaspersky and a few others. I agree that it may be a sensitive matter. However, showing an option to user whether to upload or not, every time a suspicious/unknown file is encountered in real-time can be tedious ... as compared to showing that option every time after an initiated scan. Maybe they brought into practicality or hunger for more data. [SPOILER="Comodo File Settings"][ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot (181).png"]233774[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] You know the first sentence can attract a long debate. In the NSA leak case, the drug addict and the authorities would be the same I had read the SecureList article earlier and it works to clear speculations of Russian conspiracy at least. One is expected to not argue, after agreeing to KSN usage, upload of those suspicious/malicious samples from Kaspersky users because Kaspersky proposes that they need it for analysis, but what concerns more is that classified [U]documents[/U] were uploaded too. And it may be hard to believe for some - that Eugene did get them just tossed away. [I]EDIT[/I]: As per Kaspersky's statement, the classified non-executable files were compressed with the actual malware inside of a 7zip document, which was subsequently uploaded from user's computer because auto file upload option as per KSN clause was on. That doesn't directly imply that they also upload individual documents to their servers - just staying a fact, on an unbiased note. [/QUOTE]
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