Kaspersky Lab has joined the Chinese companies Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp, as well as China Mobile and China Telecom, on the list of organizations considered threats to US national security.
Russian citizen Evgeny Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab
Putin’s Kaspersky agent or a victim of an irrational climate?
Kaspersky has long been on the radar of the US administration. In 2017, the company had to face several allegations. That same year, President Trump banned the use of his antivirus products on federal government machines. This sanction prompted Kaspersky Lab to file a complaint against the US authorities. In recent weeks, the Germans have also put pressure on the antivirus publisher. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) issued a warningusers of Kaspersky Lab following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a warning that the company could “carry out offensive operations itself, be forced against its will to attack target systems, or be the victim of a cyber operation without its knowledge, or be used as a tool for attacks.” against their own clients.
For Kaspersky Lab, these decisions were “made for political reasons.” The company adds that these sanctions are “a response to the geopolitical climate and not a full assessment of the integrity of Kaspersky Lab’s products and services.”
So isn’t the Russian publisher a victim of the irrational climate that has caused us in recent days to refuse to stage Tchaikovsky’s fabulous ballet The Nutcracker just because its author is a Russian composer who died in 1893?
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