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KGB was renamed and split into four agencies (FSB, SVR, FAPSI and FSK) that were later merged down back to FSB and SVR. There are still KGB people working there

by varjag 5y ago

KGB was renamed and split into four agencies (FSB, SVR, FAPSI and FSK) that were later merged down back to FSB and SVR. There are still KGB people working there that didn't even have to move their offices. The country is now ran by a clique of ex-KGB hardliners but I guess that does not count because it was renamed in 1991.

nix23 5y ago
So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?
- varjag 5y ago
  I'm not sure what is your point here. There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB.
  - nix23 5y ago
    I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky. >There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB Same could be said about OSS -> CIA right? >Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation Then this can't be an official Name right?
    - varjag 5y ago
      That was the official name at his time of graduation, and the school is still the Russian security service primary institution. > I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky. Oh, only that his link to Russian secret services is not ephemeral. He is still a bloody state security reserve officer. Now of course there is no way of proving if this vulnerability was planted or merely a poor implementation. However to think that Kaspersky Labs has no substantial embedding of FSB is incredibly naive, it's simply not how things work in Russia (even if the CEO isn't an FSB reservist).
- input_sh 5y ago
  It was when he was enrolled in it (1980) and when he graduated from it (1987). That's how education worked back then. If you wanna study cryptography, you go The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, now known as Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (FSB still runs it). One could say it's even comparable to National Intelligence University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Universi... > In June 2021, the University officially transferred from the Defense Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to better serve the diverse and varied needs of its students and the United States intelligence enterprise.

by varjag 5y ago

nix23 5y ago

So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?

varjag 5y ago
I'm not sure what is your point here. There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB.
- nix23 5y ago
  I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky. >There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB Same could be said about OSS -> CIA right? >Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation Then this can't be an official Name right?
  - varjag 5y ago
    That was the official name at his time of graduation, and the school is still the Russian security service primary institution. > I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky. Oh, only that his link to Russian secret services is not ephemeral. He is still a bloody state security reserve officer. Now of course there is no way of proving if this vulnerability was planted or merely a poor implementation. However to think that Kaspersky Labs has no substantial embedding of FSB is incredibly naive, it's simply not how things work in Russia (even if the CEO isn't an FSB reservist).
input_sh 5y ago
It was when he was enrolled in it (1980) and when he graduated from it (1987). That's how education worked back then. If you wanna study cryptography, you go The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, now known as Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (FSB still runs it). One could say it's even comparable to National Intelligence University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Universi... > In June 2021, the University officially transferred from the Defense Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to better serve the diverse and varied needs of its students and the United States intelligence enterprise.