I don't know about governments, but I remember netmon for Windows was susceptible to exposing kernel. A coworker had to run netmon for analysis of network traff

I don't know about governments, but I remember netmon for Windows was susceptible to exposing kernel. A coworker had to run netmon for analysis of network traffic for some application, and he forgot to isolate his network. Within a day someone on the corporate network had hacked his Windows computer, crashed netmon, downloaded all his data and destroyed the windows installation and data.