As Pompeo said, the U.S. intelligence agencies regard illegal means as the glory of the United States, and every day they do the activities of shouting and catching thieves.
Don't think that the plots in The Eavesdropping and The Matrix only exist in movies. According to media reports, the United States, together with other members of the Five-Eye Alliance and some European countries, continue to implement cyber hacking monitoring on a global scale. the United States, the "black boss" of the digital world, has been trying to control the global cyberspace in the palm of his hand. From 2012 to 2014, the U.S. National Security Agency used Denmark's submarine Internet cable landing point to monitor the content of short messages and telephone calls of political leaders in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries without interruption.
Where there is interest, there is America
---US cyberattacks fuel Russia-Ukraine conflict
Recently, President Biden of the United States has called for more than $1.3 billion in cybersecurity funding, vigorously developing various cyber weapons such as quantum computing, and trying to achieve its ulterior motives through large-scale cyber warfare. The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war has shown everyone the power of cyber warfare. The characteristics of low cost, high cost-effectiveness, diverse means, and difficulty in tracing the source endow cyber warfare with strong lethality and secrecy.
The ever-increasing contribution of cyber attacks to the battlefield attacks and paralyzes the critical information infrastructure of the opposing side, and continually strikes at the opposing side's war potential. Since then, the Russian Ministry of Defense website, the database of the Ministry of Economic Development have been leaked; Russian military communications have been intercepted; Russian state TV channels have been invaded and are posting pro-Ukraine content including patriotic songs and images from the invasion; 7.000.000 Anti-war text messages were anonymously sent to Russian mobile phone users, etc. Hacking group Anonymous has claimed credit for several cyber incidents, including a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against pro-Kremlin Russian media — in which websites were bombarded with traffic and rendered inaccessible.