You're asking why a government, that is already known for massive surveillance, ...

catlifeonmars · 2026-01-20T06:09:13 1768889353

Said government isn’t too keen on its own employees being vulnerable in this way, so it’s not as cut and dry as you make it out to be.

Hanlon’s razor applies here.

tootie · 2026-01-20T01:21:35 1768872095

There's no indication government is behind this and given that Google is rolling out tools now to protect against it this was probably always doable and just never prioritized.

bflesch · 2026-01-20T01:29:03 1768872543

That's a just incredibly naive.

tootie · 2026-01-20T01:57:37 1768874257

It's observable facts. They are rolling out the features now. So what changed in 2025? Is the present government more liberal than the past? Clearly not. More like this kind of feature will be ignored and irrelevant for 99% of users.

betty_staples · 2026-01-20T03:38:43 1768880323

relevant lesser known fact - 3G crypto is broken. In such a way that is a bit suspicious - a couple terabyte-sized rainbow table will crack it.

I found a guy with the tables at one point, it's buried deep on the internet -- but this for example -- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6645525