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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by sjg007 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:40PM (#26138792)
The risk here is that Jetbrains has significant operations in Russia. It is likely a lot easier to get an FSB agent hired into a Russian office. And in fact the Russian government can just order and enforce cooperation. The USA does this all the time and every operation is classified. I would not expect anything less from Russia or China. The companies registration in the Czech Republic (or anywhere) does not prevent this.

Kasperkey is even more obvious because the founder was involved with the KGB even before the 2017 ban. It should never have been used. Now maybe Kasperkey's affiliation is akin to a "communist youth party" card and not necessarily a genuine affiliation but the point is that you can't trust and then verify in these situations. You have to assume that everyone is hostile unless proven safe.

Re:Statement on New York Times Article by kodah on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:18PM (#26161378)
> the point is that you can't trust and then verify in these situations. You have to assume that everyone is hostile unless proven safe.

Are you getting this from somewhere or are you explaining how you perceive the standards?

The laws I'm familiar with generally have to do with pretty specific criteria for delivering software that touches specific types/classifications of data. None of that would've caught how the JetBrains software was allegedly used to exploit the SolarWinds product. This was some pretty sophisticated stuff.