This is a novel for a book. In a race where the rules are broken by some participants, how secure are your own systems when your opponent can access invisible technology long before the others? This should make you think.
This news has been circulating on the internet for a long time and it is indeed real, but the question is, if people want to buy something, they will look for alternatives.
The public repos are recent snapshots. The full project has been in development for over a decade, with the majority of the codebase in private repositories. I only recently made these snapshots public to show the architecture.