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You could contact https://twitter.com/KenKlippenstein via Signal with any information you didn't see in the article which should be. He seems to be a journalist interested in related fields.

No one is going to know unless the people who worked there reach out.

> I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products.

I guess journalists' disinterest in invasive surveillance is because reporting on it is harder, than reprinting the same 7 headlines as every other news org.

It's been a bit better since Edward Snowden dragged news orgs away from authoritarian-friendly journalism and into the surveillance age. However, journalists still seem to do about the bare minimum, while their reporting gives LEO/Gov endless benefit of the doubt.

Can these do MITM attacks that inject content into what you are reading?

Or could they change the CSS so as to, say, have Amazon's website exhibit underhanded "dark pattern" behavior?

Not when accessing https resources but the safe answer is yes otherwise. Unless your phone is infected, of course. Baseband isn't as confined as you think.