They put it on their website, which makes it company PR, regardless of how it might be seen. Good things have been done by terrible actors, since the dawn of time. It is not information alone.
However, it is likely that I would do so if they show themselves to be an enemy of my nation. If you've found Google attacking a government, I'm sure plenty of people would love to see the evidence.
[0] https://securityaffairs.com/174586/intelligence/australia-ba...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik...
[2] https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc...
It shows only that the Australian government expresses concern over the capability, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable and also politically motivated.
Oceania has always been at war Eastasia, and all that.
That's not concern of possibility. That's acknowledgement of exfiltration of data, back to Russia. Past tense.
This is political, yes. But only insofar as all actions of one nation against another is political. Australia go to some lengths not to piss Russia off. If things were not so political, then the response would likely be much greater, not less.
If you are not judging the USA at the same standards as you do other countries then that would be very hypocritical.
Until Trump, the USA was not a direct threat to the nation I now live in. However, nuance is lacking in your response.
You cannot divorce a company serving its government, from the politics it lives in. There's little evidence of Y-Combinator, for example, of endeavouring to upend their entire business to serve as spies for the USA. If Kaspersky was divorced from the KGB, politics would not be as considerable a context for understanding their actions.
I would extend that to "a company bound by law", since governments can change. [0]
Most people here argue that google, etc. have not been caught stealing/leaking data yet, as if Snowden didnt happen. And as if any foreign citizen data isnt fair game to US juristiction. [1]
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_America_Act_of_2007
1: https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/ACLU%2016-CV-8936%20(RMB)%20...
Thankyou for clarifying that you're not interested in conversation, only antagonism.
Remember of scandal with US spying directly all European top politicians? This was in quiet times compared to now.
To paraphrase you, terrible things have been done by good actors. You cannot divorce state from its other actions in same area neither. I don't think I need to bring up numerous fuckups of US 'defense' and secret services that literally killed tens of millions civilians in past 100 years across whole globe, with very little to show for and claim 'it was worth it because we achieved XYZ'.
Starlink and Tesla are security concerns.
The US' current attitudes suggest that they would very much like to see world war three. And would like to ally with Russia to make it happen.
Recklessly endangering international agreements will not be without consequences.
If there is source with evidence of that warfare, that can change my mind
So sure, when another security wonk comes along and says "Kaspersky is right about this", I think it's worth discussing. Until then, we need to assume that any communication from the company is compromised by unstated interests. Not all of it is, surely, but some probably is, and "judge it on the merit" isn't a good standard to detect the bullshit.
We can't trust Kaspersky. They're compromised by a government that's known to lie and manipulate. Again, they may be telling the truth here (certainly doesn't seem controversial), but I'm going to wait for someone I trust to tell me that.