The spyware will remain unprovable as to source--and the character is confident that it's the government on its anti-Handwavium run--but that doesn't mean it really is. Everything written as part of the story is The Truth According To Saoirse--not the truth as the author knows it.
And Earth is NOT a dystopia--but that doesn't mean thete aren't bad guys down there. She IS predisposed to see the US Government as a likely source of problems--more on that will come later. (And if you've got an ancestor that, according to family tradition, was hanged at Salem, and another that (according to Family Tradition) died at the GPO in 1916, and another that was blacklisted by McCarthy, governments aren't going to be high on your list of trusted organizations. How much of that is true--who knows--but Grandma made sure Saoirse knew all the traditions her parents didn't want her to know.
And Earth is NOT a dystopia--but that doesn't mean thete aren't bad guys down there. She IS predisposed to see the US Government as a likely source of problems--more on that will come later. (And if you've got an ancestor that, according to family tradition, was hanged at Salem, and another that (according to Family Tradition) died at the GPO in 1916, and another that was blacklisted by McCarthy, governments aren't going to be high on your list of trusted organizations. How much of that is true--who knows--but Grandma made sure Saoirse knew all the traditions her parents didn't want her to know.