Completely understandable
It’s essential to spy on your friends to confirm that they are trustworthy and not secretly your enemies and, should the spying become known and the trust relationship be broken, nothing is lost when your friends definitely do become enemies, since you are already spying on them and don’t have to start from scratch, although it might be preferable to stop spying on them when they become enemies as that might spoil any chances of making friends with the former friends who are now enemies (albeit they may have secretly been enemies all along, pretending to be friends in the past and planning to do so again in future) so, on the other hand, better to be safe than sorry, and just spy on everybody whether known friends who may be secret foes or known foes who may become new friends .
Biting the hand that feeds IT
