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by btilly 4024 days ago
I thought I had a source, but when I went looking I found tons of interesting connections (eg Kaspersky having gotten started in anti-virus while he was KGB) but no actual proof of involvement.

Given how Russian business works, though, it would seem likely that there is a connection.

But http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecur... is an article that gives more recent reason for why Kaspersky is a potentially interesting target for Western spies.

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>tons of interesting connections

Mind sharing those?

>he was KGB.

A claim unsupported by evidence.

>Given how Russian business works

"Given how I assume Russian business works based at most on anecdotal evidence." FTFY

Anyway I wouldn't bother to reply to your post, if you hadn't had used source that is full of shit, pardon my French. You can check out Kaspersky's blog for rebuttal of this article. Now if you insist on inductive reasoning I can offer you no evidence to the contrary, of course. And no, I don't work for Russian troll agency and am not Russian in any way. I doubt they would bother with ycombinator anyway. In no way this is attack on you of course, but I find these kind of posts severely annoying because of aforementioned reasons.