[throwaway4good]

Seeing that the west just killed off payments in the Moscow metro, stopped security patches for Cisco networking equipment etc. etc. There is a bit of projection going on: We fear that Russia might do to us, what we just did to them.

But what is the end result of this? Any "potential enemy of the west" will have to do their own tech, and we will only use our own stuff. Sounds like a bad trade for us; instead of selling all this stuff we have already made for a nice buck, we now insists that everyone makes their own.

[EugeneOZ]

It would be a legit thought if Kaspersky (company and the owner) wouldn't have direct connections to FSB.

[throwaway4good]

In the same manner, you can easily connect any of the big US tech companies to the US intelligence services or military.

[EugeneOZ]

When I see the evidence. Party in sauna with the hookers was a quite “specific” sort of connection between E. Kaspersky and FSB officers.