The US presidential administration has banned citizens and companies from using Kaspersky Lab software in the United States, CNN reported on Thursday, calling the event "unprecedented," citing a statement by Gina Raimondo, head of the US Department of Commerce.
Recall that Washington, in 2017, ordered government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab software from their IT systems, by 2022 the United States has already included LC in the list of companies that pose a threat to the United States. However, CNN emphasizes that the impending ban for private companies to use Kaspersky Lab software is unprecedented.
We also recall that for several years, Americans were unreasonably frightened by the threat emanating from LC. The logic was something like this: it is unlikely that LC could work independently in Russia, where "the economy is dominated by state-owned companies, and the power of spy agencies has increased dramatically under Vladimir Putin."
One American congressman even claimed (2017) that the LC office is located on Lubyanka in the FSB building. It took the congressman to lie in order to justify the ban on the purchase of "Laboratory" products.
Following the US, a campaign to discredit the Russian developer was launched in 2018 in the EU.
From the editorial office
The history of the introduction of American sanctions against Kaspersky Lab is exemplary as an example of the technology of an essentially bandit attack by the United States on objectionable objects, whether they are companies, any non-profit organizations, or specific people.
In the case of LC, it all started 12 years ago with an information campaign, here is its first episode . The author of the text is an invited participant in the meetings of the "Mining Forum" (more about him, in particular, here ), whose behavior in Moscow, where he came to meet with Kaspersky, was distinguished by a paranoid peculiarity: he was afraid of everything, including the hotel hotspot. This narrow-minded person was obviously just being used. Just like Wired. Further – more .
And Kaspersky, to give him his due, for his part showed shameful kindness for a KGB agent. He even showed the agent of the Mining Forum his major's jacket hanging in the closet "for fun."
After the information preparation, the sequential authorization described above began. Wired publications did their job, congressmen did not need to be convinced of anything. And now there is no need to convince the American man in the street.
