“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson when closing down Yardley’s ‘Black Chamber’ in 1929.
If you spy on everyone all the time it means you are paranoid. Yes, even paranoids can have real enemies. But paranoia is a mental illness. On a personal level it means living a sad, lonely and ultimately wasted life. On the level of nation states? Too scary to extrapolate.
This is the cold war race for nuclear supremacy all over again, and just as dangerous.
