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Re:Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence by neuronexmachina on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:12PM (#14746525)
Here's the actual quote from Kaspersky's email about his firm's projects with the FSB:

> The project includes both technology to protect against attacks (filters) as well as interaction with the hosters (‘spreading’ of sacrifice) and active countermeasures (about which, we keep quiet) and so on

Does anybody know what "interaction with the hosters" means?

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Re:Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence by ryanlol on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:10PM (#14748110)
Presumably it refers to building relationships with various hosting companies around the world so Kaspersky can get datacenters to seize servers for them without court orders.

This is relatively common practice for many DCs, if you're a "bad" client they'll privately hand your stuff to AV companies for analysis.

I also guess this includes practical advice like "FFS never turn abusive customers servers off, they could be encrypted"

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