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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/</a><br>
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Look, I just want to point out how terrible the reporting was
that whole week from The Intercept. I know it's not Glenn
Greenwald, but they really set a bar here in terms of
"completely not understanding the issue". There's no "Attacks"
here. Reverse Engineering isn't an attack. Reverse engineering
is research. A better headline would be "GCHQ, like many
thousands of other organizations, reverse engineers software so
it can get its job done, but it also gets a warrant just in
case."<br>
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Yes, technically it needs a warrant. And also, technically, if a
cop breaks any traffic laws, they need to put their lights on
and be going to an emergency. But in reality, cops roll through
stop signs all the time like everyone else, and sometimes they
double park to get coffee.<br>
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When you do shoddy reporting like this, you can't be taken
seriously when report on bigger issues. <br>
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And they buried the lede! GCHQ is "looking at Kaspersky AV to
see if they continue to let virus files through their AV". Did
The Intercept ask Kaspersky about that practice? Why would
Kaspersky do that, I wonder? :)<br>
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-dave<br>
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