[TriLUG] Kapersky: Bad News Bears

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
      And the solution according to certain "experts" (and managers
who read those experts articles because they have large picture and
small content) is more cloud!

Still does not work or is insecure? You did not put enough clouds on it!

> Joe
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