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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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The name must be along the way of "Real Zen Safety"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Do you think china and russia are the only options?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Don't let the door hit you on the way out lol

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you are only stopping using their products just now because of this ban, then frankly there's something wrong with you. Then again there's also something wrong with use tiktok, so the bar it's quite low.