I ran across the Wikileaks link describing modern "wiretapping" methods.

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html

Maybe I read it all wrong, and I only read this page, but it looks like 
Linux is the tool used to hack into our digital communications grid.

All it seems to imply to dumb old me is this once obscure geek toy OS 
has come a long way to respectable status.

Given the accuse first ask questions later nature of our modern 
political system, we Linux fans and the TCLUG list might already be 
under suspicion. Franz Kafka and James Bond couldn't match the current 
craziness.