U.S. Bans Kaspersky Software, Citing National Security Risks

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Well, most of privacy respecting software (and hardware) comes from Europe and USA. So at least we have a choice. Of cource, it’s usually open source, so it belongs to the world, not a country, but core team or foundation are usually based there (Signal, Element, Nextcloud, Proton…)

But the fact that most of people in Europe uses Google, Facebook, Amazon (USA), Huawei, TikTok, Aliexpress (China), Viber (Japan), Kaspersky, Yandex (Russia), Telegram (everywhere)… shows they don’t really care where the product is coming from, or how its privacy policy is. It’s only important it brings them pleasure and ease of use

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Just curious, so, Wechat, Weibo, youku, etc are usable in US / EU, but are Signal, Facebook and Youtube usable.in China?

Not mentioning car makers have to form a JV with Chinese brands (AND Chinese hold 51%) , many foreign banks cannot operate in China.

Basically the start of everything was China keep stealing global IPs.

It became political later on, but initially it was not.

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I appreciate you for posting this!

It’s always wise to be up to date with the most recent news!