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Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics

edition.cnn.com Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics

The Biden administration is preparing to take the unusual step of issuing an order that would prevent US companies and citizens from using software made by a major Russian cybersecurity firm because of national security concerns, five US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics

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Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

Telegram

Avast AV

Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360

Opera browser ... now owned by above

Zoom

FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan
Country in a trade war / cold war with another country decides to block imports of some product from said other country, citing fears of the product being poisoned. It's barely news.
Why would anybody in their right mind use Kasper by now.
Why would anyone trust, want to use, and yet alone pay for Russian antivirus software
Only pure all-American spyware on my machine. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅
You’d think the fact that Kaspersky is useless would be enough to keep people from using it.
We gonna have to worry about 7zip?
Will this affect websites, too? Cs.rin.ru is a good resource for a certain type of thing.
FBI on its way to arrest me because I used MPC-BE to play dolby digital content without a license for the ac3 codec like 10 years ago lol
Russia has computers???
Wow the comments and upvotes/downvotes here are stupid.
If American really cared about security, they would use free software.
😂😂😂.

American software is created by Jesus Christ.

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