Wow. Just wow.
It should not surprise us, but I wonder what the reaction was when people first realised telephones could be and were being tapped?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/08/how-ma-bell-fought-you...
The most awesome comment from AT&T was that "this telephone system offers a means of espionage to which general warrants and writs of assistance were the puniest instruments of tyranny and oppression".
[I]t is better that a few criminals escape than that the privacies of life of all the people be exposed to the agents of the government, who will act at their own discretion, the honest and the dishonest, unauthorized and unrestrained by courts
Yes.
Why bother cracking RedPhone when you can just trigger something remotely on the completely unaccredited radio chip, or the SIM, or the OS platform itself. A modern phone does not have one operating system, but 3-4 and they all can - after you crack one - ask services freely from others.
The whole architecture of cellphones is so broken that installing RedPhone and thinking someone with resources can't do anything about it is plain laughable. Yes, it drops casuals and non-targeted attacks. But targeted? Never.
Outrage?