I have not spent much time researching the issue but I don't really understand their explanation. I get why Kaspersky picked up the NSA malware on the computer, but why was it passed on to Russian authorities?
That fact that Best Buy stopped carrying their software doesn't make you doubt that perhaps there is a real issue?
It is essentially he said she said situation, and if you consider the Russians the ultimate bad and the Americans the ultimate good then yes, Kaspersky is at least highly suspected. But....
The Americans have vast interests and not necessarily that people shouldn't be hacked...
, see what we already have what the NSA and the CIA harvested! The Russians try to hack the Americans? Of course! And so do the Americans hack them! So... To really visualize it is the way someone said: "
If you're OK with Israel pwing Kaspersky, replace the 1 st word with Russia or Iran, and the 2nd with Symantec or Checkpoint... Still OK?"
That is even if Kaspersky is guilty of handing it over to the Russians. But the Kaspersky explanation goes two ways, first of all since the NSA workers PC had a full-blown backdoor who knows who got stuff through that?! 2nd of all, since we know that the Israelis infiltrated (and as said, aren't you furious about this?...) Kaspersky, why isn't it possible that the Russians did the same?
Reasons why the US government would try to hurt Kaspersky, can range from the possibility that they collaborated with the Russians (which is not worse of our ISPs collaborating with the NSA! And I don't have more to fear from the Russians than from the NSA.) to possible revenge on Kaspersky being able to catch and prevent their malware as well as uncover their secret operations (Stuxnet and Equation group to name two things Kaspersky detected and investigated.)
Best Buy dropped it on the advice of the US DHS, which they obviously didn't verify separately. So read the whole post again how much that is worth...
Anyway....