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I saw that too, in the page of AV company logos. All from outside the USA.

As one of my kids pointed out to me last week, you really need to trust your locksmith. It would appear that you really need to trust your AV vendor, too.

You need to trust your OS vendor first.

US companies or companies with a large stake in the US market will respond to national security letters which means It's easier to get them to cooperate.

Compulsion is not cooperation.

So are taxes whats your point? Companies that want to work in the US need to comply with US laws.

Everything in the world is pretty much done through compulsion of one sort or another.

I'm pretty sure that Kaspersky works for the Russian intelligence services (Eugene is an IKCI (FSB Technical Academy) alumni), and you can be sure that Checkpoint and other Israeli companies work with Israeli intelligence, and same goes for pretty much any other security vendor out there, if you are big enough to matter you will be in bed with some one.

Probably fewer than the number of foreign backdoors in foreign-made AV software. The NSA can already get in through the window if they really need to.