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Comment by montzark | Hacker News Reader

Little bit worried about Jetbrains products as well. I think they have development centers in Russia? Not worried about company, but rather some disgruntled employee, for example put this USB stick to your computer or otherwise we will prosecute you or your close one for participating in protests or some fabricated accusation.

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Jetbrains is Czech. They have suspended their sales and R&D activities in Russia and Belarus two weeks ago[1].

Hacker News discussion from when it was announced[2].

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639572

> Jetbrains is Czech.

Their headquarters is Czech, but many of their developers are or at least were based in Russia.

> They have suspended their sales and R&D activities in Russia and Belarus two weeks ago

"R&D activities" is a funny phrase. Does that mean they've stopped all development in Russia (i.e. there are no longer Russian employees working in Russia with commit access) or not?

Thanks! My bad.

Look at https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme..., they are actively moving all their employees out of Russia.

Sorry, but there is no such information. Some employees have moved out of Russia - JB help to them is not mentioned. I hope I just misunderstood it and JB do help their employees to move out of Russia.

You realize everyone from Intel to Samsung have R&D centers in Moscow right ?

I’m worried about JetBrains too. From what I can tell, only a small portion of their team (including the founders) are located outside Russia. That’s a lot of people left inside Russia to be pressured, manipulated, and abused into compliance.

Jetbrains was already banned at the department of defense and many other companies in the wake of previous hacks where they were suspected as the entry point.

Can you expand on this, perhaps with a link to documentation about this?

I used The Google and found these links:

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-...

1. https://www.securityweek.com/investigation-launched-role-jet...

2. https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involve...

Thanks!

Insider attacks should be part of every threat model.

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