I would be shocked if any intelligence service in the world wouldn't have their hands in that, even in the most respected democracies. Infiltrating "underground

I would be shocked if any intelligence service in the world wouldn't have their hands in that, even in the most respected democracies. Infiltrating "underground" networks and communities, and breaking encryption, is literally their job. Especially now that there's a war on our borders, the spooks have a plethora of reasons to use to justify their invasiveness. We just need to make sure to keep them accountable, which is the tricky part, as their work is always classified and our human and privacy rights often clash with their jobs, so unless any whistleblower comes through we might never know the extent of their rule breaking.