Reminder that organized crime uses the same techniques as 'non-criminal' investigators.

Cartels have billions in funds to purchase hardware and labor. They've put this to work to implement their own network. They also have incentives to harm and exploit normal everyday people.

Hell, if the small fries who attend Defcon can exploit telecommunication networks from the source, it doesn't even take a giant pile of money to make a large amounts of people's lives very difficult.

It seems, clearly, that your comfort and your security is a price the government is willing to pay for total surveillance.