Something tells me that criminal organizations are going to start retaining IT teams specifically to vet platforms like this. Organized crime probably already has significant IT; I seem to recall South American drug cartels using mainframes in like the 90s.

Forget mainframes, how about their own parallel telecom network with over 500 miles of coverage:

https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-c...

And that was over 10 years ago..

They've done a lot of interesting stuff over the years. My personal favourite is the submarine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine