From a legal or civil rights POV, the wiretapping itself is arguably no worse than bugging a POTS line or even a suspect's home. But to accomplish it they're installing a backdoor that anyone on the net might be able to use (since the malware's remote control is certain to have security issues).

It makes me worry about the state of security on the Internet. The #1 problem to date has been Windows boxes that are misconfigured, unpatched, and generally trivial to take over remotely. But how much worse will the situation get when our governments decide they have an interest and a fat budget dedicated to deliberately hurting the security situation because they need vulnerabilities to be able to install their spyware?