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Said government isn’t too keen on its own employees being vulnerable in this way, so it’s not as cut and dry as you make it out to be.

Hanlon’s razor applies here.

There's no indication government is behind this and given that Google is rolling out tools now to protect against it this was probably always doable and just never prioritized.

That's a just incredibly naive.

It's observable facts. They are rolling out the features now. So what changed in 2025? Is the present government more liberal than the past? Clearly not. More like this kind of feature will be ignored and irrelevant for 99% of users.

relevant lesser known fact - 3G crypto is broken. In such a way that is a bit suspicious - a couple terabyte-sized rainbow table will crack it.

I found a guy with the tables at one point, it's buried deep on the internet -- but this for example -- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6645525