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On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 08:26:05 AM MST, Ryan Petris <ryan@petris.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv4502895823"><title></title><style type="text/css">#yiv4502895823 p.yiv4502895823MsoNormal, #yiv4502895823 p.yiv4502895823MsoNoSpacing{margin:0;}</style><div><div>This may sound kind of funny but I remember conversations a long time ago about email hosting and at the time it was actually suggested if you want to keep your data away from the three-letter-agencies, to sign up for and use an account from a Russian email provider.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The rational being while Russia might be spying on you, The three-letter-agencies can't and Russia isn't going to share information with them.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>That said I haven't used an anti-virus in years as I haven't used Windows in years, at least on personal machines. Machines I use for work have whatever said company installed on them.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv4502895823yqt45015" class="yiv4502895823yqt6985754833"><div>On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 8:09 AM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote id="yiv4502895823qt" type="cite" style=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-ydp5c166e24yahoo-style-wrap"><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I'm quite certain all three letter agencies spy on us at the behest of the DC establishment as they create the laws and Wall Street has their spies as well.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">its all about commerce and trade. always has been.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div id="yiv4502895823qt-yahoo_quoted_9639124525" class="yiv4502895823qt-yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38, 40, 42);"><div>On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 10:17:52 PM MST, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div id="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><div><div>Nope!<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">I saw that situation coming about 10 years ago. Also, wouldn’t trust AVAST or other similar eastern EU products for much the same reason.<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">-Eric<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Software Insecurity Dept.<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><div><div><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><div id="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176yqtfd88439" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176yqt2336511218"><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">On Jun 22, 2024, at 8:02 PM, wheelie207 via PLUG-discuss <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">I'm sure most of you have heard about kaspersky now being banned from the U.S. I figured that was going to happen since Russia has control over business in that country and a national security threat to the U.S....<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">Is anyone else surprised by this. <br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176protonmail_signature_block"><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176protonmail_signature_block-user"><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">Harold Hartley<br clear="none"></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://proton.me/" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">Proton Mail</a> secure email.<br clear="none"></div></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none"></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none"></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div id="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176yqtfd61731" class="yiv4502895823qt-yiv7650187176yqt2336511218"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv4502895823qt-yqtfd25470" class="yiv4502895823qt-yqt2336511218"><div>---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none"></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none"></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none"></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none"></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div>
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