I bet those old dreaded security agencies of USSR or East Germany would have been ecstatic had they had all these new technology gizmos;

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/06/20136722756636173.html

No need for million domestic and foreign spies, neighbor telling on neighbor, child reporting on father, torture prisons and such,..
Instead you hook up public service company servers via back door entrances and let bunch of geeks do their data mining dance.
How cool is that !