True, but if I were of a sufficiently paranoid bent, I would appreciate having a toolkit full of exploits to use as news of other surveillance features spread.

True, but if I were of a sufficiently paranoid bent, I would appreciate having a toolkit full of exploits to use as news of other surveillance features spread. Someone clever/subversive enough could feasibly create a samizdat Red Star distro which had most of the known surveillance features disabled, for instance.