http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/sneakey.html
Many of us have experienced multiple ‘break-ins’ where seemingly nothing has been taken, just shifted and moved around, or maybe have had the hard drive lifted from the computer, or a door ‘fixed’ or swollen so that it will no longer close, or something was taken and then the next time the item was conspicuously returned. It is ‘crazy making’ at its best and if you made the mistake of reporting it (which you should in ‘normal’ times), but local police I am sure looked at you quizzically and wonder if you have lost your senses and said out loud, “Why would someone break-in and not take anything?”
Let me tell you, this has been reported by under-cover CIA in Havana, Cuba: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba and in Guangzhou, China: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/evacuated-after-health-attacks-cuba-china-diplomats-face-new-ordeals-n920241
It is easy to make a copy of anything, including a key from a photograph. AND if they can see through our walls (as in brick & mortar, aluminum siding, concrete block, drywall, plaster, coats of paint & wallpaper, etc) using pulsed microwave radiofrequency (a.k.a. OBSTRUCTIONS and GROUND PENETRATING RADAR), they can certainly see through your fist, clutching (and trying to hide) that precious new key, to that precious new lock that the locksmith just installed.
Using the dielectric properties of everything and anything, loaded onto a Through-The-Wall-Surveillance (TTWS) RADAR gun as software, they can 'see' and identify the number of people in your home, they can 'see' how people are interacting, their gestures, their gait, their eye movements, their breathing, their heartbeats and what they are saying. They know where the butcher knife is, where any weapons are. They know if you are cooking, sleeping, watching TV or having sex AND they can 'see' that key, whether hidden in your fist or if it is secure inside your home and pocketbook.
All done with pulsed microwave RF 'echo' or 'backscatter' that goes back to the RADAR gun's computer screen.
Everything has a discrete dielectric constant, (relative permittivity), whether a liquid or solid or gas or a composite. List of some Dielectric Constants https://www.vega.com/-/media/PDF-files/List_of_dielectric_constants_EN.pdf amd some Dielectric Properties of the Human Body https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/database/dielectric-properties/
The most capable device that I am aware of is S.T.O.R.M.S. (Sense Through Obstructions Remote Monitoring System) faqs: http://www.vawdengineering.com/faq.html a pulsed microwave RADAR gun, to see-through and identify things.
So to clone or copy a key is easy when you can ‘see' into things. Key duplication from a photo, Teleduplication via Optical Decoding http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/sneakey.html and https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3375872/Software-can-clone-keys-from-single-photo.html
What is odd to me is that the same thing is happening to diplomats and spies as has happened to us, normal, law abiding people (all documented, you guys are all documenting this stuff, right?). Isn't that odd? And isn't it odd that some one in the UK or Hawaii or New Zealand or Japan and on all the continents now, except Antarctica https://news.yahoo.com/many-200-americans-now-reported-083000770.html?guccounter=1 experience identically the same series of 'crazy making' things? Well I think it is odd. This just does not happen to thousands of people by coincidence. There must be a manual and furthermore, I think they teach this stuff somewhere, like maybe in the military? There has to be a manual.