Russians would often fend this off by saying "the CIA major is farther than the FSB one". But of course there's little reason to doubt that all public-facing s

Russians would often fend this off by saying "the CIA major is farther than the FSB one". But of course there's little reason to doubt that all public-facing separation between world's secret services is but a spectacle, just like the idependence of CAs. Not only that, but also all encryption running in OSes that run above lower level, battery-powered SoCs with full network stack like Intel ME, AMD PSP and ARM TrustZone.