Those of us in the tech industry had a good idea of what was possible or even plausible given unlimited budgets and will power. We wrote it off that even though

Those of us in the tech industry had a good idea of what was possible or even plausible given unlimited budgets and will power. We wrote it off that even though it was plausible, it wasn't probable because we'd like to think the best of our democratically elected governments that espouse freedom, freedom of speech and human rights at every turn. Even we, who knew what was possible chose not to entertain the probability of it actually happening. Who was naive? It's becoming harder and harder to write off conspiracy theories as nonsense, especially with the amount of hard evidence to the contrary.