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>The Prague-based startup This is Czech company as much as Luxsoft is Swiss or Telegram is from UAE. Using JetBrains tools you potentially give Russia/FSB acc

>The Prague-based startup This is Czech company as much as Luxsoft is Swiss or Telegram is from UAE. Using JetBrains tools you potentially give Russia/FSB access to your source code and open yourself to a possibility of getting backdoor inserted into binaries during compilation.

EGreg 6y ago
This is even more doubtful than with Kaspersky. But then again, Russia has the same concerns about Microsoft software, and so on down the line. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
maverwa 6y ago
That’s the first time I am reading these allegations. Do you have sources backing up your claim or is it just expected to be “common knowledge”?
- helge9210 6y ago
  In Russia anyone rich enough is either part of FSB or gets an offer one can't refuse (for example, see Sysoev/NGINX). Owners of the company are not dead.
  - mekster 6y ago
    What happened with the nginx owner?
    - helge9210 6y ago
      Igor Sysoev (not owner, that would be F5 Networks, but CTO of NGINX, Inc.) was detained, accepted the deal and was released.
      - mekster 6y ago
        What was the deal about? Where can I read about it?
  - maverwa 6y ago
    Please excuse me lack of knowledge, but I thought the founders are from the Czech Republic?
    - helge9210 6y ago
      No, they are Russians.
jcfrei 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to back these allegations?
MildestMind 6y ago
Right and that's reason why all these companies not based in Russia.
- helge9210 6y ago
  The sanctions for (Crimea, MH17, chemical weapons attack in Britain ans so on) are the reason these companies are not based in Russia.
ayush--s 6y ago
but what if I generate my binaries on a CI-CD server?