It’s not clear how the spyware gets onto the phone, though. Typically the user needs to download something that happens to have spyware in it. Unless the USA government includes this spyware in heretofore legitimate government apps so that a significant number of people install the spyware unintentionally, I don’t see how this spyware is of practical value. Including it in government apps might be their plan, though, even though there is a high chance that the malicious app(s) would be banned. But the USA government could threaten Apple or Google into letting the app remain available for download. Dark times.

It never occurred to me that a government would pay a funeral home, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense for a government to collectively pay for the disposal of human remains, since everyone needs it, and it can’t be abused.