This Sunday, the CEO of protection firm Kaspersky Labs, Eugene Kaspersky, said the Associated Publishers that he’s ready to give the US government his company’s source code. “Anything I can do to show that we don’t act maliciously I will do it,” Kaspersky told while emphasizing that he’s open to declaring before Congress as well.
The company’s eagerness to share its source code occurs after a motion was put forward in the Senate that “prohibits the Defense Bureau from using software programs developed by Kaspersky Lab.” It continues on to say, “The Director of Defense shall guarantee that any web connection between … the Bureau of Defense and a Bureau or agency of the United States Government that is using or hosting on its systems a software platform associated with Kaspersky Lab is immediately severed.”
Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat says ABC News, that there is “an agreement in Congress and amongst administration directors that Kaspersky Lab cannot be entrusted to protect critical foundation.” The fears reflect years of mistrust from the FBI that Kaspersky Labs is too tight to the Russian government. The Corporation is based in Russia but has run with both Moscow and the FBI in the past, often working as a go-between to help the two governments participate. “As a private business, Kaspersky Lab has no relations to any government, and the corporation has never helped, nor will help, any jurisdiction in the world with its cyber-surveillance efforts,” an official statement from Kaspersky Labs reads.
The proposal indicated an official answer from Russian Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov. He suggested that any “unilateral political sanctions” would provoke retaliation from Russia. He insisted that his government uses “a huge symmetry of American software and hardware solutions in the IT sphere, even in very sensitive areas.”
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