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This is not really a story, is it.
I worked for an Australian company, that was bought by an American company. Instantly we were required to do business as per American law, such as embargo's. We lost many customers (businesses) that honestly had nothing to do with the actual reason for the embargos. For example Iran has an American embargo because of nuclear refinement, but we just wanted to sell "knives and forks" to them. Nope - they might use those forks in their refinement centrifuges... This is what happens (but also why embargos work).
Kaspersky is Russian owned, so the hacks were discovered by Russian [whitehat] hackers. I'll bet that Apple had no ability to do "business" with the company, even if it wanted to, since Russia is currently under embargo due to the Ukraine conflict.
Now if Kaspersky spent time undermining it's own failure of a government, and putting an end to its dictatorship, things would probably work out better for everyone in Russia.
Is that the case though. You can buy a copy of Kaspersky anti virus right now if you live in the US. They have a US office. You can legally send them money.
Or put the money in escrow pending resolution of the embargo ... This is, I think, the easiest, most responsible solution to show good faith
Yeah thank you. There's a ton of ways to "hold" the money legally so Apple can still be separated from some of its money.
Lol good one!
Yes agreed... I was trying to point out that just not paying is a dick move
Ah yes Iran is falling due to lack of forks. \s
I'm pretty sure the politicians and rich people in Iran are fine. Embargos "work" (if at all) by violently punishing the poor.
Do you ask the same of american corporations?
Iran's President sure was falling due to a lack of helicopter parts
If goverment can be disrupted by hack, the faster that happen the better. Then they maybe learn to have better security.
They were told to fork off (I'll see myself out).