response --- @Bennette, I agree. However developing countries have difficulties to protect their data. I will share examples...many small countries through public tenders buy foreign services for instance for printing the bio-metric national passports or IDs, or when having elections they use software produced abroad....and so on...So, probably only bigger states with developed ICT/software industries can really be totally sovereign in this context (if they don't have to purchase foreign services/software). And even if the software is domestic, probably it will be produced by a private firm (not by government or law enforcement)! So who guarantees that everything will be secure?

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com