Having been around during the 90s Cryptowars (and related culture and counterculture) I do wonder if in a few years we’ll hear that NSA piggybacked some “fun” toys on this uninstaller.
Considering the (il)legality of what they did just by running the uninstaller without authority, and the obvious implications and attention this would have, I highly doubt they did any such thing in this particular instance.
I worked in federal law enforcement on these same kinds of cases. The approvals needed to authorize a plan like this are very heavily scrutinized. Any aside added in to leave a lasting effect directed toward monitored lawful activity would have blown this all up immediately.
The track record that U.S. government agencies have says otherwise. Was there any accountability at all for the Snowden revelations? I mean, aside from Snowden himself, anyway.
