Kaspersky Labs : The source code goes to America…. Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a worrying trend of various governments requiring private software development companies to hand over the source code of their applications for review if they want to continue selling the producttheirs.
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 that he is willing to make the source code of his company's applications available to the US government.
"Anything I can do to prove that we're not behaving maliciously, I'll do," Kaspersky said, insisting it was open to also testify before Congress.
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 prenotice that any "unilateral political sanctions" will result in retaliation from Russia. He also emphasized that his government uses "a huge percentage of American software and hardware solutions in the IT sector, 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. Big companies technology 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.
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