Absolutely. As a researcher, it's hard sometimes to wear the other hat and tell personal stories. My relationship with the Citizen Lab came through the targeted attack on me through digital means. It was attributed, after analysis, to Iranian operators, although I am not Iranian. I'm a Syrian citizen. My whole human rights and peace work activism was for Syria, but I was threatened a couple of times by the Iranian ambassador in Geneva. I was harassed online by trolls linked to Iran, Russia and Hezbollah.
This is why I'm saying that it's a global problem. These bad actors really have each other's backs, whereas victims are stuck somewhere in democracies, and these democracies, unfortunately, don't coordinate with each other.