[pabs3]

Not necessarily, Australia has a law allowing the government to compel software devs to add backdoors and gag them to prevent people hearing about the backdoors.

https://scarff.id.au/blog/2023/state-actors-can-add-a-backdo...

[int_19h]

While Russia doesn't need laws for that. You just get arrested for something else (e.g. planted drugs) and then tortured in detention.