
The White House is reportedly preparing to impose a complete ban on software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab

US to ban Russian anti-virus software for all citizens – CNN
The White House is reportedly preparing to impose a complete ban on software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab
We'll see if this holds up in court but I have a feeling the walls are closing in, the boot is falling, the illusion of freedom Americans have been granted will be stripped away soon.
This is not an isolated thing, it happens in the context of things like pushes to force logging on VPN providers, to crack down on piracy, to further control the internet and technology space.
How soon before we can talk of a US great firewall against foreign software of Chinese or Russian origin?
And unlike Chinese and Russian bans which have no reach, no long-arm of the law approach that can force the rest of the world to comply via financial sanctions, the US has the ability to actually impose these bans successfully not only on its own population but on the world if it so wishes.
The use of Kaspersky Lab’s products is seen as a threat to national security, officials in Washington reportedly say
Washington is planning to bar US businesses and individuals from using software created by the Rus
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