Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has confirmed that it will officially end its U.S. operations on July 20, 2024, following sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), imposed on back in June. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Kaspersky Lab and its affiliates to the Entity List, preventing American businesses from engaging with them.

  • @breadsmasher
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    471 month ago

    ive never understood how anyone can trust Russian security companies in the first place

    • @Delusional
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      251 month ago

      Yeah that’s why I’m using a super cool Chinese antivirus.

      • Fugtig Fisk
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        51 month ago

        Do you have a link? Because google doesn’t come up with much when searching for Super Cool Chinese Antivirus or even SCCA

          • Echo Dot
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            11 month ago

            There is an antivirus called Zen or at least they used to be about 20 years ago. It wasn’t Chinese though.

      • @breadsmasher
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        11 month ago

        Do you think china and russia are the only options?

    • @shyguyblue
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      81 month ago

      Hell, I stopped using LiveJournal when they were bought out by a Kremlin aligned company and moved all the servers to Russia…

      • @rottingleaf
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        21 month ago

        It was dead by then anyway.

        Still interesting, how both ICQ and LJ have been bought out by Russian companies and in practice killed (the former really, the latter is just desert).

        I’d say it’s a commendation to such model of social interaction over the Internet.

        Things we need in the system of the future are an ICQ alternative with contact directory, only secure, and an LJ alternative, actually all the things social media do together in the least possibly hygienic way, done right in a distributed encrypted redundant way.

        Am I going to break my chair when the Locutus network launches.

    • andyburke
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      51 month ago

      Anyone who continued to run anything clearly from Russia after seeing the past decade of their trajectory under Putin is of questionable competence.