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Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices (www.hackread.com)
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[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This probably sounds pedantic but based on this the issue isn't that the software is Russian. It's that the software is under the regulation of an authoritarian government (which is Russia)

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Precisely. If kaspersky were 100% open source, I would not have said what I did. But it’s closed source, and it’s owned by a Russian company, subject to Russian laws, and Russia is a authoritarian state, hostile to most of the world at this point - either directly or indirectly - so one would be forgiven for assuming the worst, in terms of what was put in the code at the FSB’s behest.