Well, it is pretty much a requirement if you want your AV kit to be able to do its job. You do hand your security the key to the building, too, so they can go check whether there is a burglar inside, don't you?
Two reasons why it works. One, there's always people who enjoy doing what they're doing, even without money. And Two, there's always idiots that think if they start something for free they can later charge for it.
Funny enough you're even right, most of the Russian internet companies mostly serve Russia. It's actually pretty interesting how there is nearly for every US company a Russian counterpart. Google - Yandex. GMX - mail.ru. Kickstarter - Planeta. Bet you never heard about them.
Which is a shame, they're quite useful. But I don't see anyone banning the use of mail.ru or Yandex, which would actually make more sense than banning K if you ask me...
And you will notice that those paywalled results don't stay in the top 10 google results for long.
For the most part, they become part of my "minus list". You know, the long, and growing, line of "-this -that -whatever -site:paywalled.crp" pasted onto every query.
The US government as a company belongs to you. Well, not totally, but at least you're kinda like a shareholder. And as such, you're entitled to them using the funds you provide them with well. Them simply declaring that they will only buy from this provider or never buy from that provider requires oversight, or it becomes a cesspool of bribery and corruption.
There has to be oversight because, well, would you, as a shareholder, want your CEO to buy his supplies from a company that just happens to be owned by his spouse, no matter whether there are better offers? Or would you want your CEO to avoid buying a best offer because he doesn't like the vendor for some personal reason?
Don't get me wrong, if there is a good reason not to buy there, I'm glad they don't. And it's sad that the vendor has to second guess their actual motivation instead of you, the owner of the company, doing it.
That's actually your job. Selecting one of the two offered applicants for some management position every other year isn't enough!
What I wonder is why the selective treatment of one single company. If you think Russia is spying on you, block everything coming from there. It's not like Kaspersky is the only Russian security company (far from it) or the only Russian IT company (even further) or even that there isn't a LOT of OSS coming from that general area.
Take a look down Github. Sometimes it feels like every other library for compression or security has a Russian name next to it.
Seriously. In the past, people were happy about new features, excited even, asking when they're going to come and how they can use them, with boards and media being abuzz with the previews and reviews and the how-tos and whatnot.
Today, the first question everyone asks when a new feature gets announced is "How do I turn it off?"
This works as long as people are putting up with them. And until they notice "Page works in Firefox and even Edge but fails in Chrome and Safari", and the page owners also tell them why, i.e. because Google and Apple deliberately broke their browsers.
I'd dare to say that if they started rejecting the likes of Let's Encrypt, which would cause nearly every non-commercial site to instantly be considered insecure (and with HSTS this means unreachable), people would very quickly notice this, and they'd also notice quickly that the page works fine with alternative browsers.
And you know people: Given the choice between being able to reach their wanted content and being secure, they throw security to the ground before stomping over it. They would instantly dump Chrome and install Firefox instead if that's all it takes to get back onto their page.
Neither companies nor governments are stupid. If my data is not secure in your country because your country demands a "secret backdoor" (read: Secret for 5 minutes, tops, then known to every state actor with deep pockets and/or the gun at the head of the loved one of someone with the key), my data will not be stored in your country. And if your software or hardware enables this, I will not buy your hard- or software.
And "I" in this case isn't me, Joe Randomluser in his basement but big multinational corporations. Because the last thing they'd want is to be subjected to industrial espionage because of an easily avoidable security hole in their data storage.
It's ok to bully the customers into giving you their lunch money, but if you start shaking them down and they come to class in their underpants, teachers might have to intervene.
We are probably "open" (read: someone being reachable) for more hours than your office. Unless there is actually someone (competent) answering the phones from about 6am to about 8pm.
They don't care about mom and dad ranting over politics, but they care about mom and dad being on the platform. Since you can't "pretend-friend" someone and you can't simply not "friend" your parents, the platform is ultimately worthless to any teenager.
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Well, it is pretty much a requirement if you want your AV kit to be able to do its job. You do hand your security the key to the building, too, so they can go check whether there is a burglar inside, don't you?
It's a bit like the help function. No matter what you are looking for, it always thinks you want to find out whether your copy of Windows is genuine.
MS ain't stupid, it uses the same systems for updates that it uses for spying. If you want updates, you have to allow the spying.
Disable data collection and spying on us. Frees up CPU resources as well as network resources.
And I'd dare say that it would be easy to implement, no tweaking necessary. All it takes is flipping a few compiler switches...
Two reasons why it works. One, there's always people who enjoy doing what they're doing, even without money. And Two, there's always idiots that think if they start something for free they can later charge for it.
Yeah, and if we ALL don't buy at Walmart they will have to...
C'mon, not gonna happen.
Funny enough you're even right, most of the Russian internet companies mostly serve Russia. It's actually pretty interesting how there is nearly for every US company a Russian counterpart. Google - Yandex. GMX - mail.ru. Kickstarter - Planeta. Bet you never heard about them.
Which is a shame, they're quite useful. But I don't see anyone banning the use of mail.ru or Yandex, which would actually make more sense than banning K if you ask me...
And you will notice that those paywalled results don't stay in the top 10 google results for long.
For the most part, they become part of my "minus list". You know, the long, and growing, line of "-this -that -whatever -site:paywalled.crp" pasted onto every query.
Close window.
Click next search result.
The US government as a company belongs to you. Well, not totally, but at least you're kinda like a shareholder. And as such, you're entitled to them using the funds you provide them with well. Them simply declaring that they will only buy from this provider or never buy from that provider requires oversight, or it becomes a cesspool of bribery and corruption.
There has to be oversight because, well, would you, as a shareholder, want your CEO to buy his supplies from a company that just happens to be owned by his spouse, no matter whether there are better offers? Or would you want your CEO to avoid buying a best offer because he doesn't like the vendor for some personal reason?
Don't get me wrong, if there is a good reason not to buy there, I'm glad they don't. And it's sad that the vendor has to second guess their actual motivation instead of you, the owner of the company, doing it.
That's actually your job. Selecting one of the two offered applicants for some management position every other year isn't enough!
What I wonder is why the selective treatment of one single company. If you think Russia is spying on you, block everything coming from there. It's not like Kaspersky is the only Russian security company (far from it) or the only Russian IT company (even further) or even that there isn't a LOT of OSS coming from that general area.
Take a look down Github. Sometimes it feels like every other library for compression or security has a Russian name next to it.
What's so special about Kaspersky?
If you don't let us get a backdoor into your products, you won't work in this country again.
Seriously. In the past, people were happy about new features, excited even, asking when they're going to come and how they can use them, with boards and media being abuzz with the previews and reviews and the how-tos and whatnot.
Today, the first question everyone asks when a new feature gets announced is "How do I turn it off?"
This works as long as people are putting up with them. And until they notice "Page works in Firefox and even Edge but fails in Chrome and Safari", and the page owners also tell them why, i.e. because Google and Apple deliberately broke their browsers.
I'd dare to say that if they started rejecting the likes of Let's Encrypt, which would cause nearly every non-commercial site to instantly be considered insecure (and with HSTS this means unreachable), people would very quickly notice this, and they'd also notice quickly that the page works fine with alternative browsers.
And you know people: Given the choice between being able to reach their wanted content and being secure, they throw security to the ground before stomping over it. They would instantly dump Chrome and install Firefox instead if that's all it takes to get back onto their page.
So, in other words, it still lets ads slip past, waste my bandwidth and time?
NEXT!
Odd. Mine manages to do that just fine.
But hey, what do I know as a moron?
Really? Umm... could you help me out, the double and triple lives I live kinda caught up to me ... care to tell me which one was the real one?
Neither companies nor governments are stupid. If my data is not secure in your country because your country demands a "secret backdoor" (read: Secret for 5 minutes, tops, then known to every state actor with deep pockets and/or the gun at the head of the loved one of someone with the key), my data will not be stored in your country. And if your software or hardware enables this, I will not buy your hard- or software.
And "I" in this case isn't me, Joe Randomluser in his basement but big multinational corporations. Because the last thing they'd want is to be subjected to industrial espionage because of an easily avoidable security hole in their data storage.
It's ok to bully the customers into giving you their lunch money, but if you start shaking them down and they come to class in their underpants, teachers might have to intervene.
What I meant is that we should stop changing the clocks twice a year for no good reason.
We are probably "open" (read: someone being reachable) for more hours than your office. Unless there is actually someone (competent) answering the phones from about 6am to about 8pm.
I don't care what your clock says. I heed mine.
They don't care about mom and dad ranting over politics, but they care about mom and dad being on the platform. Since you can't "pretend-friend" someone and you can't simply not "friend" your parents, the platform is ultimately worthless to any teenager.
Get a better adblocker.
*gasp* She didn't!
Wow, if a man had said that, I bet he'd be fired by now.