The CIA owned the top crypto company for decades and sold its tech to both allies and adversaries so that it could spy on them. 😮
(if you think crypto means cryptocurrency, stop following me :p)
Follow
(It was known that the company sold compromised machines to western adversaries (via unclassified documents in 2015); however, there was no knowledge of the exact relationship nor the extent of the spying, and the fact that allies were also spied on.)