The US Bans Kaspersky (youtube.com)
Kaspersky is now labelled ‘spyware’ by the US government. Trump banned it on US government equipment in 2017. Best Buy followed this by deciding to remove it from their stores.
‘Antiviruses are benevolent rootkits.’ All proprietary software is (to be considered) spyware until proven other, and even then when the next update comes it's spyware again.
Kaspersky has an office in Massachusetts.
Kaspersky's research has been very valuable to security for everyone. They revealed a new method to detect Pegasus in January. It may be the US government is revenging against Kaspersky for weakening their spyware company (NSO).
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