IE like Crypto AG:

In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.

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    9 hours ago

    I know your example is the opposite, but any service that is run and hosted in the US.

    It’s one of the major issues with Signal.

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      Not to mention Graphite and Pegasus, Israeli spyware.

      When parliaments have to inquire their own spy services, it’s a sign that these spy services must be disbanded, as they are becoming a deep state of their own, intimidating and harassing politicians. After all, if you can’t trust your own politicians, whom can you? And that’s problematic.

      Disbanding those services and prohibiting any secret services from ever forming, would also regain a great deal of trust of society in each other. And that trust in turn, can foster society to advance for mankind.