Not when they’re using it lawfully, but if it’s used against the citizens of the country to suppress protest or jail political dissidents. Do the people have the right to hack that, or request aid in hacking or jamming that from like-minded world citizens. Is it an act of protestation against jack-boot states, or mere criminality? I’m sure there will be as many opinions on this as there are assholes – and as usual, plenty will be full of shit.
In Iran, a country that frequently jails dissidents and where regime opponents rely heavily on Web-based communication with the outside world, a monitoring center that can archive these intercepts could provide a valuable tool to intensify repression.
“He told me he had received a call from the Ministry of Intelligence, and this guy when he went to the interrogation, they put in front of him printed copies of his chats with me. He said he was dumbfounded, and he was sent to prison.”
Now would probably be a good time for someone to invent a good steganographic system for twitter/sms/text-to-speech-back-to-text communications, so “normal” text conversations could be used for dissident communication sans detection.