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The most important take-away of the story is that if the government has the power to gather all available data of people, sooner or later the same information w
by RRWagner 1y ago
The most important take-away of the story is that if the government has the power to gather all available data of people, sooner or later the same information will be in the hands of criminals targeting those same people.
- OutOfHere 1y agoFurthermore, the government is complicit in the intentional insecurity of the phone networks, protocols, and operating systems.
- Arubis 1y agoAnd oftentimes the government and the criminals will be the same people—if not at the beginning then by convergence.
- pkkkzip 1y agoalso a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a cartel quite good and poses significant challenge to the state
- vkou 1y agoAnd sometimes, the government becomes the criminals and everyone discovers that it's really difficult to get them to hold themselves accountable.