VENGEFUL DECISION?: China has excluded US-based Symantec Corp and Russia's Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved antivirus software vendors, according to a Chinese media report suggesting Beijing is expanding efforts to limit use of foreign technology. — Reuters
In all the recent bombshell reports about the Kaspersky antivirus software, it's easy to focus on the Russian threat and miss the general context: Every government that employs hackers tries to weaponise antivirus software.
Government departments certainly need to consider that in choosing their own software; whether that's something the average computer user should worry about is a different matter.
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