In 2017, WikiLeaks, a well-known whistleblowing website linked to Julian Assange, released 8,761 classified government documents detailing the C.I.A.’s hacking tools used to spy on virtually anyone, across borders, or domestically. This cache of documents, known as ‘Vault 7’, proves that the Central Intelligence Agency can take remote control access of iOS and Android devices, and are able to convert Smart TVs into listening devices, allowing the American government to listen into any conversation without the subject’s awareness. Although “most of what was ‘revealed’ in Vault 7 was already…