Every nation is at it.

"Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said...it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software." Reuters. "The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that several thousand Apple Inc devices had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers and foreign diplomats based in Russia and the former Soviet Union." Apple denied the allegation saying, "We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will." In 2016, the FBI in the US managed to unlock an Apple iPhone belonging to the San Bernadino shooter Syed Riswan Farook without any assistance from the company. BBC. An Israeli cybersecurity firm Celebrite helped the FBI. Apple resisted the FBI demand for a backdoor because in 2010, "Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail," because "In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts." CNN. "A state- sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of US critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications and transportation hubs, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said." Reuters. "Microsoft analysts said they had moderate 'confidence' this Chinese group, which it dubbed as 'Volt Typhoon', was developing capabilities that could disrupt critical infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises." A large part of China's sensational economic growth has been facilitated by stealing technical secrets from US companies. In 2014, " 'Uglygorilla', 'Kandygoo', and 'WinXYHappy' are some of the aliases used by the Chinese accused of hacking into US companies." CNN. "The men behind these handles are officers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) under a unit known simply by the code 61398," located in a "non-descript building on Datong Road in Shanghai's Pudong District." While countries use cyber technology to spy on others, our government bought the Pegasus spyware from the NSO Group in Israel as part of a $2 billion defence deal to spy on Indians. The Wire. Using our money to spy on us. In defiance of the Supreme Court, the government refused to cooperate with the inquiry into the Pegasus scandal by a panel appointed by the Supreme Court. HT. "Concerned by a 'PR problem', the Narendra Modi government is reported to be looking to spend up to $120 million (over Rs 9.86 billion) on new spyware sold by firms less exposed than Israel's Pegasus, says a report by the Financial Times." The Wire. While our government resources are targeted at Indian citizens, China is merrily hacking into our power grid, ET, and possibly other infrastructure assets for future attacks. Hence, the government does not know that China has occupied 2,000 square kilometers of Indian land in Ladakh. The Hindu. Spying for the people, or on the people. Strong or weak.