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I rushed through the article but it didn't really say anything of value, other than justifications from the state for treating everyone as criminals (oh how convenient that would be).

You don't really need much for targeted surveillance, right ? One only needs to tap into the distributor and push a specific trojan update.

Even without that Telegram and Signal already have vulnerabilities by tying key-pairs to phone numbers via OTPs. GSM is broken, ergo so are these. If these agencies wanted to do targeted surveillance there is very little in their way IMO.

The argument presented in the article is a specious one in that they use the premise of targeted surveillance for instituting the structures for mass on-demand targeting.

This is a very slippery slope, and as usual the morons that form our 'forth pillar' have let us down badly.