Kaspersky Declared National Security Threat

[StakeOut]

Less than a month after news broke of the FBI’s warnings against using Kaspersky software, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Binding Operational Directive (BOD) requiring certain federal agencies and contractors to remove Kaspersky products from federal information systems. The BOD is intended to safeguard the information and information services of federal agencies. Fast forward to late last week and the Federal Communications Commission added Kaspersky, along with China Mobile and China Telecom, to a list of communications equipment and services that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to US national security.
Kaspersky is headquartered in Moscow.

 

[smoothshooter]

Is anyone surprised?

 

[Donn]

Nothing new here. This has been the word about Kaspersky from Day One.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Don't worry, we still have the Chinese TikTok program installed everywhere, gathering everyone's biometric data.


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[vonn]

Not sure what can be done to secure all of the systems we are now dependent on but we seem to be very vulnerable at this point in time.

 

[Telecaster]

All that stuff is spyware, just pick who you want spying on you and use that software.

 

[LVSteve]

Don't worry, we still have the Chinese TikTok program installed everywhere, gathering everyone's biometric data.


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I thought Tik Tok was approved by OPM?

 

[Biggfoot44]

I'm so much of a Luddite , I don't know what a Kaspersky is ?

 

[ladder13]

Is anyone surprised?

No, I’ve been thinking what backdoors semi conductor manufacturers have been hiding in their products for years.

 

[Telecaster]

I'm so much of a Luddite , I don't know what a Kaspersky is ?

It's an antivirus program.

 

[StakeOut]

I'm so much of a Luddite , I don't know what a Kaspersky is ?

Do you know what Google is?

 

[gjgalligan]

Do you know what Google is?

That's a domestic spy.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Gjgalligan wins the internet today!

 

[DWalt]

The only safe assumption is that every piece of software in your computer contains spyware or worse, no matter it’s origin.

 

[len917]

Do you know what Google is?

Ya mean Barney Google?