And the corollary is also true:
The NSA knows how to break Kaspersky and other anti-malware
products
So the NSA can get information out of Kaspersky's and other
products databases
The NSA hasn't disclosed how they break Kaspersky or other
products
Kaspersky and other vendors can't fix the problem since they
don't know the problem
Kaspersky is therefore an agent of the Russian government
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Richard McClary
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: More on Kaspersky
If I follow this correctly...
Kaspersky and others sell anti-malware products which include anti-spyware
The NSA develops spyware and gets it onto zillions of machines
Kaspersky and other anti-malware products detect this and upload it to their
central servers for analysis and for them to keep in their malware databases
Ultimately, every anti-malware vendor has the NSA spyware available in some form
This seem to be what is happening?
With friends like these, who needs enemas?
--
richard
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 3:37 AM
Subject: [NTSysADM] More on Kaspersky
An interesting read, I thought. Especially this:
The NSA bans its analysts from using Kaspersky anti-virus at the agency, in
large part because the agency has exploited anti-virus software for its own
foreign hacking operations and knows the same technique is used by its
adversaries.
The Israeli hack itself would be reason enough for the NSA or any other
intelligence agency to ban Kaspersky products. It happens to other anti-virus
packages, too. Recently, the South Korean military discovered it had been
hacked, presumably by North Korean intelligence, using Hauri anti-virus
software.
YMMV.
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