yep. i fully agree. i've been a computer geek a long time. also most people don't realize that every single bit of internet traffic, tor included, all flows thorough DARPA pipe, and is holographically catalogued and stored. There isn't a single thing that happens online that isn't recorded, they don't have a record of.
those machines at the bank that "count" bills? also optical scanners. bills as you know have been serialized for a long long time. if you want, you can think of that as bitcoin 1.0 lol.
- yes all roads are monitored, they buried RFID readers and other tech like weight bearing sensors in them from the 80s and 90s onward.
there are satellites (which are terrestrial btw, ) pointed at everything.
if they wanted to know if you farted in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa, they could figure that out.