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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)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (47 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Out of curiosity, why Telegram? (Im out of the loop on this one)

As for uTorrent, I’ve got version 2.2.1 and have never allowed it to update in the last decade or however long it’s been. I think that was the last version that didn’t allow any ads or otherwise and was simply a solid p2p client at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Because it's less (because of history stored on server and use of OTR being problematic) secure than ICQ in year 2003, prone to phishing and, yes, made by people I wouldn't trust.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

may I ask why didn't you just switch to qbittorrent? is there a feature that utorrent has but qbit doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Never needed to or even thought about it. uTorrent never gave me any issues and was super lightweight. Additionally, there was a fansubbed anime site I was a member of for a long time that had a limited whitelist of p2p clients last they would allow their trackers to function on. uT 2.2.1 was one of those.

That pc seldom gets used anymore nowadays anyway, as my main pc is running OpenSuse and ktorrent does all I need it to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because Russians started it I guess?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you forget everything else, it's basically an unencrypted chat where the company behind it can read all your messages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like discord?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I never cared about discord so I don't know, but I'd assume so, yes.

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