I don't know who GP is but I've got in my LinkedIn contact someone I personally met who was actually spied upon by the GCHQ (or was it GCHQ + NSA? You never rea

I don't know who GP is but I've got in my LinkedIn contact someone I personally met who was actually spied upon by the GCHQ (or was it GCHQ + NSA? You never really know in this cases). It was done to him simply because he's a famous belgian cryptographer. And we're talking about people who made frontpage of mainstream media newspaper: hardly the kind of publications that shall report all the various states' wrongdoings (typically they'll instead be complicit and try to cover up misdeeds). It's not as if these thing do not happen nor if as if there aren't persons of interests here on HN.