[TriLUG] Kapersky: Bad News Bears

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG wrote:

> Reports in today's news confirms that Kapersky Labs' anti-virus software has 
> enabled Russian spying. Excerpts:

well yes, but if you read the comments on various technical newsgroups, this is 
exactly what was supposed to happen.

When you install Kaspersky you agree that any unknown malware on your machine 
will be uploaded to Kaspersky for further inspection. The Kaspersky anti-virus 
software found the malware that the govt employee had installed on his home 
machine, not knowing that it was freedom fighting malware from NSA, and sent it 
to Kaspersky. Apparently the Russian Govt has first dibs on malware that 
Kaspersky finds.

Joe

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