The best part of all of this is how there is all this media coverage on a fricking antivirus, but nobody seems all too concerned with the NSA losing more secrets.
It's like incident #100, maybe Kaspersky is the KGB, good on them since they are clearly more competent than the NSA. Maybe we can poach them?
Stands to reason that the media coverage is a smoke screen to eat up attention on the issue. Easier to give people a boogeyman so they don't have as much energy to spend on noticing the really important problems.
And our media outlets will happily run with anything that produces those sweet clicks.
Our media outlets will happily run anything the government tells them. Here is the line from that infamous NYT article:
"The current and former government officials who described the episode spoke about it on condition of anonymity because of classification rules."
And now you know why Snowden wouldn't touch the NYT with 10 foot pole. This isn't "current and former government officials" committing a felony and treason to leak information to the NYT, no, they are just telling that reporter the NSA press report with a hushed voice.
It's like incident #100, maybe Kaspersky is the KGB, good on them since they are clearly more competent than the NSA. Maybe we can poach them?