Technologies and “trials of capabilities and use” has been used by Governments for DECADES, before the average person can even fathom such and idea….and DECADES, before a smidgen of those Technologies are on display for Public purchase and use.As a child in the 1980's my mother told me that the government recorded phone conversations. My sister and I hated having a television in our bedroom because we believed we could be watched through it.
Why did we believe that in the early 1980's? Because we (and our parents) were brought up in the CIA's MK Ultra program and we knew these technologies (and others even more advanced) existed because they were used on us.
No doubt…”average” persons have operated IN Governments and Personally with Secretive knowledge and access to unfathomable wicked means.