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Sounds like they're choosing their battles just like the US ones.

My takeaway here is not to trust either Russia or US based companies, as none of them will escape working with the secret services. China and India have plenty of exploitative AV like software as well, mainly for mobile.

Are there any European AV? Or Japanese? Or South African? I'd love to have something that has an eye eg on Microsoft's products, because there's no doubt that they have backdoors and report home.