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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 1692 days ago
Sure, the NSA could backdoor an opt-in system around a political third rail that is hardly if at all used in the United States.

Or, it could attack the radio processor that runs a parallel operating system on our phones that we can't inspect.

Or hell, if the goal is "tracking people", they could attack the legal infrastructure that is used to legally track people via cellphones today.