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Getting some DUAL_EC prng vibes.

Insert Kaspersky owned by Russia intelligence conspiracy here...



Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation photos:

https://cs6.pikabu.ru/post_img/big/2017/07/04/11/14991974131...


Just to remind you all why it's not a coincidence and also not an argument for conspiracy.

The only organizations in the USSR who were hunting for best talent were KGB and military. So when the first businesses emerged and started hunting, almost all talent came from there.


Factually incorrect: only a small minority of talented people went working for KGB. It had many perks but wasn't a place where a serious talent would thrive.


Are there any data, if we talk factual?


Poke any notable Soviet science and technology figure and see if they have KGB in their biography.

Soviet R&D wasn't structured within end users but was own network of research institutes and design bureaus. So if you wanted to work say on solid state rockets you wouldn't go to artillery school but rather something like Central Scientific Research Institute of Heat and Mass Exchange. There you'd be working for tactical rocket stuffings for the rest of your life, have a certain academic career track and as a perk have an occasional international publication with peripheral results.


When you are starting working on real rockets, the KGB must give you clearance.

So I bet every one of the notable figures had some KGB in their biography.


Being investigated by KGB is so categorically different thing than being a KGB officer that I'm not even sure where to start.

But sure: Sergei Korolev, the champion of Soviet space programe had his jaw permanently broken in one of NKVD/KGB torture sessions. This later led to his untimely demise.


KGB school student and later KGB officer...sounds plausible.

BTW: that whole thing must be before 1991 (KGB) and kaspersky was founded in 1997 (where KGB wasn't anymore).


KGB was renamed and split into four agencies (FSB, SVR, FAPSI and FSK) that were later merged down back to FSB and SVR. There are still KGB people working there that didn't even have to move their offices.

The country is now ran by a clique of ex-KGB hardliners but I guess that does not count because it was renamed in 1991.


So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?


It was when he was enrolled in it (1980) and when he graduated from it (1987).

That's how education worked back then. If you wanna study cryptography, you go The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, now known as Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (FSB still runs it).

One could say it's even comparable to National Intelligence University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Universi...

> In June 2021, the University officially transferred from the Defense Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to better serve the diverse and varied needs of its students and the United States intelligence enterprise.


I'm not sure what is your point here. There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB.


I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky.

>There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB

Same could be said about OSS -> CIA right?

>Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation

Then this can't be an official Name right?


That was the official name at his time of graduation, and the school is still the Russian security service primary institution.

> I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky.

Oh, only that his link to Russian secret services is not ephemeral. He is still a bloody state security reserve officer.

Now of course there is no way of proving if this vulnerability was planted or merely a poor implementation. However to think that Kaspersky Labs has no substantial embedding of FSB is incredibly naive, it's simply not how things work in Russia (even if the CEO isn't an FSB reservist).


Making the animation after generating a password exactly 1 second seems oddly suspicious.


Conspiracy, rofl? Also, he is not owned, he always wanted to serve to the "Big Brother", afaik. That's a mentality.




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