![]() ![]() Shaheen wants classified information about Kaspersky Lab to be released to the public. This move has been led by Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen who has made the blacklisting of Kaspersky Lap her cause célèbre. The news reports come after a recent vote by the US Senate to ban Kaspersky software from use by the US government and its agencies. The only evidence of Eugene Kaspersky’s ties with the Russian secret service are that he was a member of the Communist Party and that he attended a technical university run by the KGB and worked for military intelligence for four years after that, leaving in 1991 to form what would become Kaspersky Lab. There is equally no evidence given of Kaspersky Lab working directly for the Russian secret service. The reports provide no information about how an NSA employee’s laptop could be hacked so easily, nor why it took a year for the hack to be disclosed. ![]() They state that he did this for an unspecified reason, but that he wasn’t intending to share this information with foreign governments. Armed with this information, the Russians hacked the laptop and stole all of the other information on it.īoth the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post ignored the more obvious question: why the employee had taken classified information home on his laptop. The reports claimed that it was the Kaspersky software’s actions in quarantining the malware for analysis that alerted Russian secret services of the presence of secret NSA material on this employee’s laptop. ![]()
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