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What's the basis of your accusation that FSB has overt access into Kaspersky's infrastructure?
by linkregister 8y ago
What's the basis of your accusation that FSB has overt access into Kaspersky's infrastructure?
- trhway 8y agoIt isn't accusation :) You're trying to apply Western standards in the domain of completely different standards. And even applying Western standards this is what possible to say : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/11/israel-hack-uncovered-russian-spies-use-kaspersky-lab-2015-report-us-software-federal-government https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/11/israel-ha... "At the time, the Department of Homeland Security said it “is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks”" Notice that Kaspersky doesn't lie : "In an official statement about the allegations, Kaspersky Lab said: “As a private company, Kaspersky Lab does not have inappropriate ties to any government, including Russia," as the keyword here is "inappropriate" which the above mentioned law clearly takes care of. Again, all these fine icing-on-the-cake details, like the law and "inappropriate", etc. are only for the Western consumption, as they just don't really matter in the Russian reality if only by virtue of being dwarfed by the things what do matter there. In that reality it would be a really "inappropriate", a faux pas of the scale that is even hard to imagine, if Kaspersky refused to work with FSB :)
- linkregister 8y agoPlease share the sources or your reasoning. Edit: thanks! I do recognize that I use Western thinking. Optimism and implicit trust are great!