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16 Jun 2024 07:43:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Is Kaspersky Labs software a cyber threat?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 13 May 2017 03:21:51
Message: <5916b40f$1@news.povray.org>
On 13-5-2017 9:18, clipka wrote:
> From what you've quoted so far, I'd be inclined to chalk it up to
> anything from plain paranoia to lobbying by the US software security
> industry.
>
> In a diametrally opposed scenario, Kaspersky Labs might even be the good
> guys, and the whole thing might be driven by US intelligence agencies
> bent on getting rid of them, in favour of companies they can more easily
> press into adding backdoors for them.
>

I would add to that that the Russian intelligence agencies might be 
trying the same thing...

-- 
Thomas


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