[RRWagner]

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.

[vkou]

And sometimes, the government becomes the criminals and everyone discovers that it's really difficult to get them to hold themselves accountable.

[Arubis]

And oftentimes the government and the criminals will be the same people—if not at the beginning then by convergence.

[OutOfHere]

Furthermore, the government is complicit in the intentional insecurity of the phone networks, protocols, and operating systems.

[pkkkzip]

also a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a cartel

quite good and poses significant challenge to the state