[bawolff]

Well you're certainly correct, as a tech person i'm nonetheless always disapointed by mainstream media reporting on these things as the "how" and "what" bit is by far more interesting to me than anything in the article.

The actual article is pretty old news and uninteresting - yes US police have used spyware for "surveilence". This is not new by any means. Similarly a number of Israeli private companies have made a name for themselves selling spyware software on, lets say the grey market. This is well known by now.

The only interesting thing to know would be how this particular piece of software works.