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Kaspersky products are now banned in the US (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 5 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/security@programming.dev
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If it ain't 'murican we ban 'em!

Guess all foreign cars should be next, what with all the telemetry and all...

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because we don't ban things based on country very often, we ban things based on whether they are a threat.

Interesting how you framed this as xenophobia so confidently, and now want to shift the goalposts.