FCC finally gets around to banning Kaspersky from telecoms kit

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has woken up and issued a ban on Kaspersky software being used in telecoms kit, months after Washington deemed it a national security risk and blockaded future sales. The US telecoms regulator dispatched a missive [PDF] yesterday (September 3) to say that as Kaspersky software and …

[Strahd Ivarius]

Next step?

FTC banning CrowdStrike !!!

[FuzzyTheBear]

Apart from the US gov ..

Has there ever been published proof that Kaspersky was actually a bad actor or it it simply politics ?

I kind of hesitate believing that it's a fact based , proven and proof made public , and not simply a matter of dirty politics ..

Really if there's proof we can actually read somewhere ? Documents ? Logs ?

This whole story stinks and i'd like to know whether it's fact based or not ?

ric

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Apart from the US gov ..

As far as I can tell, no. Kaspersky has even offered all their code up for review and was turned down.