They clearly are dominating, as a well-thought-out strategy, & reality, but the consequences are scary. Apart from the tracking, apparently the explosive capability in the Mossad pager terrorist attacks were lying dormant for up to 10 years before they were detonated. Lot more places to hide dormant weapons in cars than pagers. If not explode, than at least the ability to shut down on command. You'd be negligent in your duty as a CCP higher-up if you didn't implant some kind of cyber-weapon capability.

Noted, and all good points. Unfortunately, I would argue, we're fucked no matter who makes the devices because they're all going to engineer their own totalitarian controls into the hardware.

We truly are so fucked.