@GossiTheDog That article isn't even good propaganda, I give it a C-.
But yeah, I suspect that this was kept secret from their policy and legal teams as well, because I'm going to assume that the people working on those teams are competent.
I also really, really, really want to know the gender makeup of the supersekrit skunkworks team that tested this. I mean, I feel confident in my hypothesis, but best to await confirmatory evidence.