The Russian Government has asked Apple to hand over source code for inspection to ensure that the iPhone maker is not complicit in enabling U.S. intelligence services to spy on the world’s largest country.
After Russian Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov made the same proposition to SAP, ohe suggestion came during a meeting between Nikiforov, Peter Engrob Nielsen — Apple’s top Russian executive — and SAP managing director Vyacheslav Orekhov, according to Apple Insider.
“Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 and U.S. intelligence services’ public statements about the strengthening of surveillance of Russia in 2014 have raised a serious question of trust in foreign software and hardware,” Nikiforov said in a statement.
“Obviously, companies which disclose the source code of their programmes are not hiding anything, but those who do not intend to establish cooperation with Russia on this issue may have undeclared capabilities in their products.”
