Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With The Rooshins. Feds Upset.

[Razer]

> A recent AP story notes that senior U.S. intelligence officials do not
> recommend Kaspersky's anti-virus products.  Attempting to rebut the
> concern, Eugene Kaspersky has offered to allow the inspection of the
> source code of his anti-virus products.   For reasons that Herb Lin
> ably outlines, that offer is inadequate to establish the lack of
> Russian government influence.  But extrinsic evidence of that
> influence is scarce on the ground -- leaving Kaspersky with a
> signficiant degree of plausible deniability.
>
> All of which makes this news report from Bloomberg especially
> interesting.  Here is the the nut graf:
>     
>> While the U.S. government hasn’t disclosed any evidence of the ties,
>> internal company emails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek show that
>> Kaspersky Lab has maintained a much closer working relationship with
>> Russia’s main intelligence agency, the FSB, than it has publicly
>> admitted. It has developed security technology at the spy agency’s
>> behest and worked on joint projects the CEO knew would be
>> embarrassing if made public
> .
>
> On a day when email evidence seems to be all the rage, this story
> should not get lost in the shuffle.
>
> [UPDATE:  Kaspersky has now published a response.  Here is the link.]


LawFare, with links:
https://lawfareblog.com/kaspersky-lab-has-been-working-russian-intelligence