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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But we're talking about a federal agency here, not local law enforcement. It's been confirmed that systems they tried to keep secret exist for them to have direct access to traffic going through ISPs, so why wouldn't they have set up something similar for wireless networks, that would eliminate the need to go through any corporate bureaucracy? To me it seems reasonable to assume that such programs exist without being divulged because it would be basically similar to what else has been confirmed to exist, and there's a really obvious incentive.