The simplest argument to make is that, regardless of whether the top people at Kaspersky are gleefully collaborating with the Russian government, they probably are required to give the Russian security service a backdoor to their networks as a condition of existing.
Given what we know about the feds installing black boxes in ISPs' networks here in the US- a country nominally committed to the rule of law- it seems somewhat naive to think that the Russian government doesn't have access to Kaspersky servers.
Does that make Kaspersky uniquely evil? Probably not. Do the feds have an agreement with Microsoft to take a peek at anything they turn up from a foreign intelligence service? I don't know. It wouldn't be too surprising.
Given what we know about the feds installing black boxes in ISPs' networks here in the US- a country nominally committed to the rule of law- it seems somewhat naive to think that the Russian government doesn't have access to Kaspersky servers.
Does that make Kaspersky uniquely evil? Probably not. Do the feds have an agreement with Microsoft to take a peek at anything they turn up from a foreign intelligence service? I don't know. It wouldn't be too surprising.