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bhouston on Oct 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools...

What is the timeline on this? If Israel knew this in 2015, why is Kaspersky tools just being banned in the US now? Was this only shared recently?

zeveb on Oct 11, 2017 [–]

> If Israel knew this in 2015, why is Kaspersky tools just being banned in the US now?

Now that is an excellent question. Why didn't the Obama administration do more to protect U.S. government computer systems from this threat?

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