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Wiretapping is typically the stuff of spy dramas and shady criminal escapades.

The highest-resolution satellites are still the stuff of spy agencies.

SAN FRANCISCO — Wiretapping is typically the stuff of spy dramas and shady criminal escapades.

Only yesterday it was the exotic stuff of spy shows: flip on a computer and track the enemy's speeding car.

Rather, it unfolded over at least six months on Americans' social-media accounts — hardly the stuff of spy novels.

Savvy kidnappers will dispose of phones or other devices (implantable tracking chips are, so far, the stuff of spy movies only).

The software proved to be the stuff of a spy film: it can grab images of computer screens, record Skype chats, turn on cameras and microphones and log keystrokes.

The methods are the stuff of a spy thriller a secret laboratory for replacing samples in the laboratory at the Sochi Olympics, actual cocktails of steroids dissolved in alcohol ("Chivas for the men and vermouth for the women")—but the extent of the scheme is even more incredible.

The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion for drones next year, and by 2030 envisions ever more stuff of science fiction: "spy flies" equipped with sensors and microcameras to detect enemies, nuclear weapons or victims in rubble.

One-time pads, for those not up on their cryptographic history, are the stuff of old school spy sagas.

It seems more like the tit-for-tat of two bloated "intelligence" communities, the stuff of ridicule in Mad magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" comic strips.