Kaspersky Labs : The source code goes to America…. In the last couple of weeks, there has been a worrying trend of various governments demanding from the private Companies software developers to submit the source code of their applications for review if they want to continue selling their products.
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 the company's security Kaspersky Labs CEO Eugene Kaspersky told The Associated Press that he is willing to release the source code of his company's applications to the US government.
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The company's decision to release its source code comes after a proposal was filed in the Senate that would effectively “prohibit the Department of Defense from uses 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 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 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 encryption software.
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.
