the consequences of xenophobia. i worked for kaspersky usa from 2011 to 2014 and they were great. it shows how much conspiracy theories take root when people believe eugene has ties with the russian government based on his mandatory service back when it was still the ussr.
Pretty sure it’s not xenophobic to look at “Headquarters Moscow, Russia” and wonder if there’s any possibility that Putin could enforce something upon the company.
It’s not like Russia doesn’t do it to us.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) separately accused the US National Security Agency and company Apple of being behind the attack
It’s fair to hurt Russia’s GDP by choosing not to use Kaspersky [in light of people’s opposition to the war with Ukraine]. That doesn’t mean “xenophobic”.
Edit: Added bracketed clarification
Yeah. Now houses cost as much as a…well, there’s no way to finish that sentance anymore. People don’t buy houses, governments do. And they raise the rent when they control the whole city.
Xenophobia is bad when the fear is unfounded
The fear isn’t unfounded with a known hostile country like Russia, it’s not like after the Cold war they went “ah well now we’re besties”
Maybe they weren’t having Kas do anything, or maybe they were.
This is the same country known for jailing peoples families when they don’t cooperate, this is the same country that launched an unprovoked war, this is the same country that has been trying to actively take down the US via political games etc (I could go on forever)
