US Senate Has Lost Its God Damn Mind

[Kristy]

"A draft of the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018" — which approves the budget and policies for US defensive projects — outlines a ban on the usage of Kaspersky Lab software products at DOD facilities under the explanation that the Russian antivirus vendor "might be vulnerable to Russian government influence."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/senate-gets-ready-to-ban-kaspersky-products-as-fbi-interviews-companys-us-employees/

US weariness towards Kaspersky Lab, the company, are based on the fact that Eugene Kaspersky, its founder and CEO, was trained by the KGB and worked as a Soviet intelligence officer in the Red Army, a period which he many times declined to talk about.

[FORD]

Kaspersky is a well rated international brand, and a lot of people use it. I don't, because of the guy's KGB background. I don't use the Israeli made "Zone Alarm" for the same reason, because it's creators were "former" Mossad operatives. It might be just paranoia, of course, but why take the chance of giving foreign spies a backdoor into your computer.

The DOD should be running all of their computers - and most certainly their servers - on a more secure operating system in the first goddamned place.

[Kristy]

In other words, master Bernie voted for this bill.

[FORD]

I have no idea if he did or not. First time I heard of this bill is when I read this thread.

[Nickdfresh]

Made this connection well before the DOD did, threw out the ZoneAlarm...