I made a joke online that I had access to the e-mails from the ministry of justice and that I would publish all of them wikileaks style (This was back in the 2011s, 2012s era). I had indeed found a security issue but the e-mail stuff was a joke, but due to many other factors it was more than believable.

They even came to arrest me a few month later, I am not making this stuff up!

But the whole story is very crazy, I should write a complete blog post on it and what their shady techniques are.

I don't know who GP is but I've got in my LinkedIn contact someone I personally met who was actually spied upon by the GCHQ (or was it GCHQ + NSA? You never really know in this cases).

It was done to him simply because he's a famous belgian cryptographer.

And we're talking about people who made frontpage of mainstream media newspaper: hardly the kind of publications that shall report all the various states' wrongdoings (typically they'll instead be complicit and try to cover up misdeeds).

It's not as if these thing do not happen nor if as if there aren't persons of interests here on HN.