Editing F-Secure (section)

==Controversies==
In 2001, after media coverage of the [[Magic Lantern (spyware)|Magic Lantern]] spyware and claims by some AV vendors to purposely leave a backdoor for it in their products, F-Secure announced their policy on detecting these spying programs:

"F-Secure Corporation would like to make known that we will not leave such backdoors to our F-Secure Anti-Virus products, regardless of the source of such tools. We have to draw a line with every sample we get regarding whether to detect it or not. This decision-making is influenced only by technical factors, and nothing else, but within the applicable laws and regulations, in our case meaning EU laws."

"We will also be adding detection of any program we see that might be used for [[terrorist activity]] or to benefit [[organized crime]]. We would like to state this for the record, as we have received queries regarding whether we would have the guts to detect something obviously made by a known violent [[mafia]] or terrorist organization. Yes we would."<ref>{{cite web|title=F-Secure Corporation's policy on detecting spying programs developed by various governments|url=http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/bdtp.shtml|publisher=F-Secure|access-date=25 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225003100/http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/bdtp.shtml|archive-date=25 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>