Even after President Obama tried to reassure jittery Americans in 2013 that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” the CIA developed spying techniques far more terrifying — the ability to eavesdrop on the public through their smartphones, computers and television sets, and even try to control their cars, according to WikiLeaks documents purportedly from the embattled intelligence agency.

The document dump seemed to confirm even the most paranoid American’s worst nightmare — that the government can spy on you through household devices in your living room and even your pants pocket.

The agency also developed a way to hack into smartphones, accessing Apple and Google Android operating systems, to read even messages encrypted through apps such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.

In another frightening scenario, the spy agency as of October 2014 was looking into ways to hack the vehicle control systems of modern cars and trucks, allowing the CIA “to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations,” according to WikiLeaks.

The CIA didn’t just craft the hacking tools, it appears to have allowed them to be stolen, according to WikiLeaks.

The anti-secrecy group did not allege that the CIA is actively conducting listening operations on Americans using the hacking techniques, but blamed the Obama administration for breaking promises by not reporting the vulnerabilities to high-tech companies so they could fix the problems.

“In the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks about the NSA, the U.S. technology industry secured a commitment from the Obama administration that the executive would disclose on an ongoing basis — rather than hoard — serious vulnerabilities, exploits, bugs or ‘zero days’ to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other US-based manufacturers,” WikiLeaks wrote yesterday.

“Serious vulnerabilities not disclosed to the manufacturers places huge swathes of the population and critical infrastructure at risk to foreign intelligence or cyber criminals who independently discover or hear rumors of the vulnerability. If the CIA can discover such vulnerabilities, so can others.”

Snowden on Twitter yesterday also warned that “any hacker can use the security hole the CIA left open to break into any iPhone in the world.”

President Obama decided in January 2014 that the National Security Agency should turn over information about major flaws in internet security, but also created a major loophole for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” The New York Times reported at the time.

The latest files date from 2013 to 2016 and are dubbed by WikiLeaks as Vault 7.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee yesterday expressed concern and hinted at an investigation. “These appear to be very, very serious,” said California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes. “We are extremely concerned, and we are following it closely.”

Herald wire services contributed to this report.