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US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com)
Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of the Russian cybersecurity software firm that bears his name, had a big American dream. From a report: He wanted his company to go beyond selling anti-virus software to consumers and small businesses and become a major vendor to the U.S. government -- one of the world's biggest buyers of cybersecurity tools. Kaspersky set up a U.S. subsidiary, KGSS, in Arlington, Virginia that would be focused on winning that business. He sponsored flashy conferences with high-profile speakers --including Michael Flynn, who was briefly President Donald Trump's national security adviser -- sought to join U.S. trade groups and even underwrote programming on National Public Radio. All of this was done to burnish Kaspersky's image and help it become an accepted vendor for the U.S. government despite its Russian roots, according to people familiar with the strategy. But Eugene Kaspersky was never able to overcome lingering suspicions among U.S. intelligence officials that he and his company were, or could become, pawns of Russia's spy agencies. Kaspersky "has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts," the company said. Kaspersky's American ambitions were further eroded by the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russia relations following Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and later when U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had hacked the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
But Eugene Kaspersky was never able to overcome lingering suspicions among U.S. intelligence officials that he and his company were, or could become, pawns of Russia's spy agencies.
By current political standards, if Kaspersky Antivirus detects NSA malware, that's the direct meddling hand of Putin.
Good luck.
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Kaspersky, the company was founded by Natalya Kaspersky and her ex husband Yevgeny Kaspersky.
No idea how that Eugene Kaspersky comes in, is that the retarded american way how to spell Russian names and it is meant to be Yevgeny == Eugene?
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
What Scott Ritter claims/shows is that first, an National Intelligence Assessment is a lot more modest than a National Intelligence Estimate, and that what was published as a National Intelligence Assessment does not qualify as such.
It's a fraud - by selected people from the intelligence community - to push conclusions that the Intelligence Agencies would not be willing to support. Ritter also discusses a lot of other irregularities that all point in the same direction: the conclusion to blame Russia for everything was devised upfront, the rest was a matter of building a case. Just like with Iraq.
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Yes Yevgeny=Eugene
"has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts,"
And this is why they won't win any contracts. Symantec refuses to share their source code with other governments and is at the same time one of the biggest US government contractors despite their products consistently scoring lowest detection rates.
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His wife's surname would be Kasperskaya (or Kasperska in the original Polish). Grammatical genders are used for all nouns in most Slavic languages, even for surnames (I think only Yugoslavian languages are an exception, their surnames are always in the masculine form). Some of these languages, like Czech, don't even make an exception for non-Slavic surnames, resulting in (for example) Trump's wife being called "Melania Trumpova" (with an acute accent over the last a).
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
So, you're saying that Russia is exactly like the United States? Because in almost ANY company in the USA you can find ex military personell(which is what a lot of people who claim "employee's with a history of Kremlin involvement" mean) Does that mean that nobody around the world should hire anybody from the states?
Anyway, why can we not just lay back and spell the names like they are spelled in the original language? And more important: pronounce it that way?
Is this some of that odd change the subject deflection like what Kellyanne Conway does?
Anyhow, I hear Trump is looking for a new spokesperson. Imagine the fun you can have when some gaddamned news reporter asks about collusion, and you can go off on a rant about name spelling and pronunciation.
Dunno if they pay in rubles yet though.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
To government agents, it doesn't matter that Kaspersky isn't aiding the Russian government. His company needs to be in the pocket of the US government or they will destroy it. Entities in cybersecurity that are independent of government control and manipulation are defacto considered bad. Just as bad as entities working for Russia.
During 2014, maybe, it was excusable to believe this lie.
But when, a year later, Russian TV broadcast an entire movie celebrating the invasion — and Putin's direct involvement in it — the excuse vanished. In particular, during the interview, that is part of the film, Putin says:
The cat's been out of the bag since March 2015. Your continuing to lie about it does not help Russia — it just exposes you as an asshole.
Yep, this is generally true. But it will not help you here.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I believe the key is to not write as if Linux is a perfect solution but rather merely a better solution and then to defend it in such a manner without involving ego.
Then again, maybe trolls just don't like me enough to even bother. :'(
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Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Call me contrary but what has really convinced me of a large-scale Russian state plot to influence the US election are the huge numbers of posts here (and on other social media) denying it, often with obfuscation, half-truths and straight lies.
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Not Getting Caught
And what's more, Microsoft patch vulnerabilities far faster (within a couple of month), compared to Linux [slashdot.org], which may take up to 2 years before releasing a patch [zdnet.com].
Actually, you have your facts misconstrued. Most of those Linux CVE's were patched at the same time they found them and they roll out updates immediately, which is never more than a day or two from having the distro maintainer roll them out also, leaving you free to update and fix the issue. Where as Microsoft can find out about an exploit and wait months to roll out an update. Now the "which may take up to 2 years to fix" well, fact is that may have been in the code for 2 years it wasn't known about for 2 years and you cant fix what you don't know is there. Not to mention shit MS08-067(I had fun with that one for years..) Also you are comparing the Linux kernel of 8 years(multiple versions all being worked on at once) To one version of windows. How about lump ALL supported versions of windows into your numbers and get back to us. You have done nothing to help, only to misinform the masses on multiple things. Like how the Linux kernel structure is completely different than the windows OS structure, And how CVE tallying works. I once again will not say that Linux is 100% secure, but its a far sight more than anything Microsoft is. Not to mention, Look closely at a lot of those exploits. You have to have local access already to the machine, unlike a lot of Microsoft exploits that allow you to attack from anywhere in the world with just an ip and a port number providing they're not behind NAT.