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>Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe

Categorically wrong. One of the core focuses many security experts care about IS government overreach/interference. Governments are one of the leading pressures for software vulnerabilities/backdoors. Doesn't matter that it's Russian, because this isn't a "Russophobe" stance. However, Russian and Chinese interference is usually on a much larger scale than other countries and typically has a much higher amount of scrutiny than other countries because of this fact. Due to those countries policies it's hard to trust code that comes out of either country.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq/

>"The case against Kaspersky Lab is overwhelming," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said in a statement. "The strong ties between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin are alarming and well-documented."

Isn't it funny that many other Anti-viruses don't seem to have these issues?

Case and point from other countries on the government pressure argument.  
https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/  
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data  
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/  

Many countries have these issues documented when interference happen. You know which ones don't? The ones that you lemmy.ml shills usually defend. That's not because they're not doing it by the way.

Damn... And you're a mod here? Anyone know of another community that is privacy focused and isn't on lemmy.ml? A mod that doesn't understand that closed source software with known ties to government entities is a problem.

Hell this isn't even a "Dumb American" stance either (forget that I hold an eastern EU citizenship). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties has a whole section of "Concerns raised by other governments". Virtually all of the EU also has this concern with Kaspersky. Additional countries included... It's at the very least ODD that a company has such ties to a government. And the sheer PARANOIA that all "serious security experts" hold would immediately bar most of them from using the software due to that fact alone.

Hell it's even typical for a security professional to outright block ALL Russian and Chinese internet traffic for their platform. Just because it's not worth the effort to deal with those countries and all the risks that come with them. But right! This must be "Russophobe" and no "serious security expert" has a problem. You're full of it dude(tte).

>You are not one of those serious security people.

News to me... I guess I should turn in my CISO position. Who's going to tell the R1 college that I taught at for years? All those thousands of students, many of which still reach out to me regularly and have made it quite far in industry?... Hmm... Oh and it's not an "appeal to fallacy" or any other logical fallacy when it's me defending my own status from a bullshit claim.

Edit: for any non-admin 3rd parties wondering who downvoted me... 100% of those votes at the moment is lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml. Take with that what you will. To me that screams "How dare you talk facts about the motherland" vibes. 

Edit2: Oh they also  edited their post to seem more normal... Their original post said

>Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe and regards Kaspersky as the best commercial tool provider for malware analysis, based on merit and not on nationality. You are not one of them. I do not trust Bitdefender, Norton, McAfee and other western companies with CIA backdooring, and since CIA does use metadata to kill people (just like Yemen or Palestine), it is a clear cut choice.

So basically ANY software not Russian, you seem to not trust. Claim it's on merit... But only point out nationality. Don't you find that odd that Russia can't do no harm either? Even though other companies do not have as clear cut ties to their governments?

> Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Edit3, after your edit: 
>Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Activitypub is open by nature, kbin users can see everything that I've published. There's no abuse happening here. Nor is my instance just one person/user. But you do you man.
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1: Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post