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Kaspersky products are now banned in the US (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 4 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/security@programming.dev

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If it ain't 'murican we ban 'em!

Guess all foreign cars should be next, what with all the telemetry and all...

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are 195 countries in the world and the US has sanctions banning product imports of some kind from six of them:

Iran
Russia
Cuba
North Korea
Syria
Ukraine

Kaspersky is Russian software, and Russia is at war with one of our allies. To pretend this is xenophobic "banning anything not American", instead of a strike against a specific enemy, is more than a little disingenuous.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Hell, kapersky should be banned everywhere