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To date, we only knew about Russia, but it seems the US government is giving the same ultimatum to foreign software developers. 
On Sunday, the CEO of the security company Kaspersky Labs, Eugene Kaspersky, said in Associated Press ότι είναι πρόθυμος να διαθέσει στην κυβέρνηση των USA the source code of his company's applications.
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The company's decision to release its source code comes after a proposal is submitted to the Senate that basically "forbids the Defense Department to use software platforms developed by Kaspersky Lab."
Jeanne Shaheen, a member of New Hampshire Democrat, told ABC News that "there is consensus in Congress that we can not trust Kaspersky Lab to protect our critical infrastructure."
Fears follow FBI's chronic suspicions that Kaspersky Labs is very close to the Russian government. The company is based in Russia, but has worked with both Moscow and the FBI in the past, and has often mediated to help the two governments work together.
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The response from Russia's communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov came as a warning that any "unilateral political sanctions" would result in retaliation from Russia. He also emphasized that his government uses "a huge percentage of American software and hardware solutions in the field of information technologys, even in very sensitive areas".
The specific proposal for the source code comes at a time when Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the Russian government. The Russians are allegedly involved in the 2016 election hack, according to the Americans.
Russia on the other hand is doing exactly the same as American private companies. Major technology companies such as Cisco, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, McAfee and SAP have agreed to give the Russian government access to the source code of their security products such as firewalls, anti-virus applications and software that provides encryption.
Symantec's security firm has formally refused to cooperate with Russian demands last week.
"There is a risk to the integrity of our products that we are not willing to accept," said one offaceof Symantec.
