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US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. senators sought on Wednesday to ban Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab's products from use by the military because of fears the company is vulnerable to "Russian government influence," a day after the FBI interviewed several of its U.S. employees as part of a probe into its operations. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents visited the homes of Kaspersky employees late on Tuesday in multiple U.S. cities, although no search warrants were served, according to two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the FBI probe. Kaspersky Lab confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that FBI agents have had "brief interactions" with some of its U.S. employees, discussions that the company described as "due diligence" chats. The interviews were followed on Wednesday by the release of a defense spending policy bill passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, which would prohibit the U.S. Defense Department from using Kaspersky software platforms because the company "might be vulnerable to Russian government influence," according to a summary of the legislation.
It's also using silicon fabricated in China and hiring Millenials.
*sigh* Are you Finnished?
My grandmother was 100% Finnish. Instead of telling people to "Go to Hell!", she would say "Go to Russia!" :-D
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
I am using operating system from USA, antivirus from Russia and backup program from China. This way I have achieved multiple, geographically diverse backups for all my important data. I still need to test the recovery process though.
By that Logic, so are the Clintons.
"His name was James Damore."
The communist menace hasn't changed in the last 100 years.
Thank God for J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joseph McCarthy. They knew how to deal with traitors.
If Kaspersky employees are traitors, give them the Rosenberg treatment.
If we are going to have a "witch-hunt", let's reactivate the House Un-American Activities Committee and burn the real witches in this country.
It's time to get rid of them and their fake news, for good.
Make America great again!