Kaspersky Lab Sues U.S. Government Over Software Ban

[SuburbanFarmer]

...and the company is suing the government for the bad press. A legal issue.

Which affects their ability to make money in the open market...

So then, anything that affects the market value of a thing is "the open market at work".

[Speaker to Animals]

StA would tell you the only way to fix this is to declare antivirus software a public utility, and then randomly install whatever, because all AV solutions are the same, theyre all 1s and 0s.


“Engineer”

You really are flailing.

[Speaker to Animals]

The funny part about this story is that what the US government is accusing them of doing is exactly what our government and corporations have been doing to Russia for quite a long time.

[SuburbanFarmer]

The funny part about this story is that what the US government is accusing them of doing is exactly what our government and corporations have been doing to Russia for quite a long time.

I've been thinking the same thing about every single "Russiagate" story.

Same with the hyperventilation about Russians supplying dirt farmers with weapons.

[Speaker to Animals]

All they have to do is actually prove that this company is spying on Americans or creating vulnerabilities, and people will stop buying it. States attorney generals can take them court for damages to consumers as well.

If they are not doing those things, then I am going to lean more towards crony capitalism, or just plain old fucking with Russia.

The worst part of it is that, if this is a huge issue, then we probably should start arresting most of the NSA leadership at this point.

[heydaralon]

Who would have guessed that the CALEA and other laws mandating backdoors in all software would lead to massive security vulnerabilities? I'm sure China, Russia, and our enemies won't take advantage of this stuff. Ironically, the same people saying that the fourth amendment makes us more susceptible to attack are inadvertently creating the very means for hacking and cyber attacks in the future. When the attacks occur, the solution will simply be even less privacy and more government intrusion. Its a vicious feedback loop. Much of this stuff predates 9/11 btw. The intelligence agencies freaked out in the early 90's when encryption and proxies took off and were telling Congress that there would be an intelligence blackout if we didn't push for spying through corporate software and telecoms. When the towers fell, their dreams came true, and they were handed the keys to the kingdom on a silver platter. I believe that they still would have done it, but they didn't even have to pretend to care about the bill of rights once GWOT took off.

[The Conservative]

...and the company is suing the government for the bad press. A legal issue.

Which affects their ability to make money in the open market...

So then, anything that affects the market value of a thing is "the open market at work".

Ever hear of the saying, supply and demand?

It's why you don't pay $60 for a game that came out 10 years ago...

[K@th]

Ever hear of the saying, supply and demand?

Not just a saying, it's the law! Also, completely irrelevant to the topic of this thread. You're on fire this week.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Which affects their ability to make money in the open market...

So then, anything that affects the market value of a thing is "the open market at work".

Ever hear of the saying, supply and demand?

It's why you don't pay $60 for a game that came out 10 years ago...

Oh yeah? Ever heard of a little thing called the Law of Gravity, my friend? That's right. It dictates that anything that affects a mass will involve gravity, because inertia is a force.

[The Conservative]

So then, anything that affects the market value of a thing is "the open market at work".

Ever hear of the saying, supply and demand?

It's why you don't pay $60 for a game that came out 10 years ago...

Oh yeah? Ever heard of a little thing called the Law of Gravity, my friend? That's right. It dictates that anything that affects a mass will involve gravity, because inertia is a force.