You have to love the uninformed nationalism when these topics come up. I feel this [0] image perfectly illustrates it. It's not just that plenty of people simply have no idea what they're using as we speak (they will just judge based on some nationalistic sense of value) but some will keep touting "the principle" because it makes it easier to rationalize while actually being perfectly OK with the black box definitely spying them for "home team" rather then the black box that may be spying them for "away team". Not referring to any particular black box here.
[0] https://pics.me.me/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbarous-wast...