Canada has banned the use of Kaspersky security products and Tencent's WeChat app on mobile devices used by government employees, citing network and national security concerns.
  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t trusted Kaspersky for a long time, ever since I read this interview.

    If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?

    Internet design–that’s enough.

    That’s it? What’s wrong with the design of the Internet?

    There’s anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.

    I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation–Internet passports, Internet police and international agreement–about following Internet standards. And if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        For an antivirus? I’d say just defender & don’t open sketchy .exe files for Windows. Otherwise, Linux and don’t really worry about it. Keep regular backups either way and you can’t go too far wrong.

        For the design of the internet, I’d say the opposite of what Kaspersky wants lol