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Kaspersky is pretty much the pawn of the Putin administration and works against Western interests. Wired has a decent writeup here: http://www.wired.com/2012/0

Kaspersky is pretty much the pawn of the Putin administration and works against Western interests. Wired has a decent writeup here: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/ http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/ They're fair game as far as I'm concerned, considering the things they've done in the past. They're not this innocent tech company morally above the dirty games nation states play. They're an active participant. Pretty much every "important" industry in Russia is controlled by the Putin administration and is a tool of it. See how the founder of VK didn't want to play ball and had to flee the country. Now VK is run by Putin stooges.

toolsadmin 11y ago
The possibility of Kaspersky being a "stooge" for Putin is much less than the possibility of Symantec, Norton et all being stooges for US Government (well its a certainty actually) + all the arms of the octopus. This is why I use Kaspersky @ my home PC, at least I know if there are any backdoors, it would be very difficult for anyone in the west to get Russia to provide any useful data on me. While for Symantec - it would take one call and the backup keys to unencrypt your drive/snoop on you is in the hands of people who painted you a target.