I didn't miss it, I completely ignored it. It's well known that former FSB agents work at Kaspersky. But the insinuation that Russian agents could be working at

I didn't miss it, I completely ignored it. It's well known that former FSB agents work at Kaspersky. But the insinuation that Russian agents could be working at Kaspersky isn't even speculation, it's just a hand-wavey allusion to some dastardly-yet-unknown plot. Former NSA and other intelligence agents work at US AV companies, too. And the US regularly uses National Security Letters to covertly compel US companies to do their bidding. But they don't even have to. The FBI uses its own signals intelligence branch when working with US companies, such as telcos and technology companies, on national security investigations. This sigint group then shares its information with other US intelligence agencies. So companies can claim they never passed information to the NSA, because they were only passing it to the FBI. If we use the same rule to compare Russian and US antivirus companies, nobody should use either of them, because they have the same biases, the same ex-intelligence officers, and they can pass off information in a variety of ways and still maintain plausible deniability.