Kaspersky, Russia, and the Antivirus Paradox

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I guess it is pretty much like Mickeysoft. When the US secret services want to know something, or the industry needs new ideas or patents.. have a look at what other people do and save on their PCs or networks. Lots of backdoors for the initiated. A hegemony is not for the faint hearted, even if is a tad better than outright war. Kaspersky will help Russia, like Apple helped the US when it came to access to "well-defended" privacy.
What else do you expect when it comes to legal matters, or a nation needing certain information?

OT (sorry), regarding Russia:
I think that Putin is much more reasonable than e.g Trump, and i begin to have some respect that he still has the composure, after being blamed for everything under the sun and being treated as a pariah.
A "dictator", well.. democracy is of course a joke in Russia. There are differences between his and our ideas of how to lead a state, but we the west do not have a real democracy either.

My theory: if you look at what is happening in Russia you probably need some "tsar" to keep it all together, and get ahead of criminals and certain networks, to have a working government in such a country at all.
I do not like his managing of anyone being critical about him, it is almost as if Mrs Politovskaja was the same calibre challenging him and his power, like e.g. this sceret service agent he poisoned with radioactive stuff, or other organised resistance.
However, this is how he spreads the message not to mess with him, most probably learned in his service times, but imho it would not be necessary for him to do that. Way too much overreacting

His speeches and statements regarding the handling of the middle east, economics and about general conduct agaisnt terrorists though should be heard, and taken seriously by "the west". The time of the Soviet Union has passed, this is not a communist state anymore.
The West has screwed up bigtime after 1990. Some like the military or those communist-eater die-hards, will sure like that we have another cold war up our back. It is not only Russia that has to change.