On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:06:42 -0400, B00ze  wrote:

>On 2017-10-05 21:14, Buffalo  wrote:
>
>>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hacke
rs-exploited-antivirus-software-to-steal-us-cyber-capabilities/2017/10/05/a01bf
546-a9fc-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.d57947157833
>>
>> True or false?
>> Should we still use it?
>> Buffalo
>
>TechDirt has a much bteer article on the subject:
>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171005/17294138356/hackers-grab-more-nsa-e
xploits-possibly-with-assistance-russian-antivirus-developer.shtml
>
>Basically, and I looked at the license to make sure since I use 
>Kaspersky, if you enable KSN (Kaspersky Security Network) then you allow 
>the A/V to upload any file it wants to the Kaspersky Cloud and it will 
>not tell you it is doing it. That does not mean the NSA contractor's PC 
>uploaded an interesting file to the Kaspersky Cloud, nor does it mean 
>that Kaspersky then alerted the Russian authorities telling them "This 
>guy has NSA tools on his PC." But it *is* true that the A/V can upload 
>anything it thinks is relevant if it finds an infection on your PC. I 
>personally do not enable the KSN (you should see the list of things it 
>is allowed to upload, it's scary.) FYI Avast also has a "Cloud" and it 
>probably does the same thing Kaspersky does...

 It does. So does Avira. It's in the TOS. With NO option to
"turn it off".
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