Serious Discussion No More Kaspersky in US !!!

[monkeylove]

Reminds me of the Frontline documentary "The United States of Secrets"

 

[KevinYu0504]

Huawei : First time ?

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What a beautiful land of freedom ~

 

[cartaphilus]

Huawei : First time ?

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What a beautiful land of freedom ~

So we can honestly say that the Trade Wars have now been taken into Cyberspace.

 

[pvsurfer]

Further Clarification - According to US Department of Commerce:

Kaspersky will be banned from selling its software to American consumers and businesses starting on July 20, but the company will be able to provide software and security updates to existing customers until September 29. After that, Kaspersky will no longer be permitted to push software updates to U.S. customers!

 

[cartaphilus]

Further Clarification - According to US Department of Commerce:

Kaspersky will be banned from selling its software to American consumers and businesses starting on July 20, but the company will be able to provide software and security updates to existing customers until September 29. After that, Kaspersky will no longer be permitted to push software updates to U.S. customers!

I wonder how will that be enforced?

 

[TairikuOkami]

I wonder how will that be enforced?

Most likely US's DNS providers, just like UK reinforced ban on XXX by using UK's DNS services. That includes Cloudflare, Google and such. Time to pick your poison (DNS)!

Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco must poison their DNS resolvers to prevent access to around 117 domains used by pirate sport streaming sites.

torrentfreak.com

 

[TairikuOkami]

But honestly, the block on KAV makes sense on a gov level. You would not use a door lock provided by your adversary so why would you use their security solution?

Indeed, as far as privacy goes, never use software friendly with your government. EU/US should prefer RU/CN software an vice versa. Enemy agencies do not share info, so you should be safe.

 

[Behold Eck]

Well I suppose it`s good house keeping seeing that Kaspersky was already banned in government agencies.

The FSB have been active in meddling with American internal affairs for years a la facebook, X/Twitter QAnon et al so I`m only wondering what took them so long to implement this one??

Regards Eck

 

[nickstar1]

Gen Digital is now the new Kaspersky with all that data they have. I feel the US wanted to dominate the cyberspace looks like they have. Norton,AVG,Avast, and all the other companies they own are the new monster.

 

[harlan4096]

U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban

US Treasury sanctions 12 Kaspersky executives, citing cyber threats. Company and CEO unaffected. Follows Commerce Dept. ban on Kaspersky software.

thehackernews.com

 

[harlan4096]