In the contrary - such behaviour ist highly security related as it compromises the security software itself.
If this should be tolerated, we will be floated with nonsense & hoaxes in the future. And no one will extract important news >:(
The main problem is NOT politics yes/no but unrelated issues for security themes …
When it comes to (computer) security/privacy, you can’t get by politics.
Politicians make rules/laws that have influence on security/privacy.
e.g.
Some are trying force software makers to have a back-door in their applications so governmental instances (police, FBI, CIA, NSA, BVD, Cheka, NKGB, MGB, etc) can see what you are doing.
If governmental instances can spy on you, so can the bad guys.
It is a huge security risk.
Hi Eddy,
You can discuss anything technically involved here. How to detect governmental trojans for instance or obstacles that hinder freedom of expression. That is all OK and very much what an av vendor should do, but you should abstain from politics as such and not add to the controversy.
Yes discuss whether there is a bug in Whatsapp and what is the implication for the users. OK to discuss whether outsourcing and going to the cloud is bad for governmental platforms and to add to info data breaches.
Discuss the latest rootkit detection and removal. All perfectly OK, but refrain from profiling what global politician has the best hack team and why, that is just being irrational. As irrational as the discussion whether the Easter Bunny is real or part of mythology? Here on the forums, we call this procedure - keep on-topic or not.
Damian
Not sure if the Easter Bunny exists, but the Playboy Bunnies do ;D
But, they aren’t real. A lot of them have plastic parts. ;D
Hi Gopher John
Didn’t you know, that led by Santa Claus, the Guardians include the Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, and the Sandman.
They all look for and find easter eggs in software, bugs and backdoors.
polonus
The danger really gets critical if they gain access to the front door. 
Especially when most people leave all the doors (and windows) unlocked, usually open at that.
Don’t forget to also protect this door:
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1484823672336-22919.png
I think we are drifting too far from the core issue of this topic.
I actually found this topic because I was looking for an Avast plugin that would notify me of fake news.
Is there a question ?
This is actually an old topic.