I don’t think it was all code alone. There were probably hardware purchases, new telco drops and software licensing fee’s involved as well. But yeah, this one has a stink on it that isn’t going away anytime soon.
I agree. Don’t know all the software they used, but I read that they were using at least some open source, so no cost for that. Also read on another thread this a.m. that they’re using Google Chrome as the web browser (and asst’d other Google apps) - great for PII collection.