I understand this is a movie reference, but I don't know at whose perception of tech it hints - the politicians involved or the populace.

If the politicians - they are sadly much smarter, a certain Russian politician publicly talking like that was known in FIDO in the 90's, needless to say - sufficiently literate, and a certain Russian fiction writer supportive of various crazy evil things was even a FIDO sysop.

If the populace - normies are fascinating in the sense that not only they are amazingly dense when that's socially acceptable, but they also may become amazingly bright when that's socially acceptable. Normies would use computers the old-fashioned way before GUIs, and normies would have decent understanding of ICE's and radios when that was normal. I'm hopeful.

Also I think in Windows you can make a batch script, drag-and-drop something on it and the filename will be passed to it. Put it alongside a directory with anime pics, and drag the text file with your message, get a random pic with your message. On the receiving side drag-and-drop the saved picture on another batch script and get a text file. Thus we get a steganography system as easy to use as many pirate games.