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Less likely? This is exactly what happened earlier this year.

Here's an article from the same newspaper that showed up to me as "related" when browsing TFA:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-emai...

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So you point to one instance of highly targeted sabotage aka sanctions. But Snowden and others exposed many instances of espionage dragnets.