This. I wonder why everyone in the security apparatus acts as if they will never be affected by these kind of requests. I can only imagine two possible answers:

This. I wonder why everyone in the security apparatus acts as if they will never be affected by these kind of requests. I can only imagine two possible answers: 1. They trust in legal exceptions for themselves (look at EU chat control exceptions), which implies a thinking closer to the Soviet Union than a real republic. 2. They think they're already compromised by "the Chinese" or any other state actor and just feel incompetent themselves.