Ah yes, "Stop the Clipper chip!"[0] The NSA has been looking to get backdoors into telecommunications for a long time. See their tapping of all international un

Ah yes, "Stop the Clipper chip!"[0] The NSA has been looking to get backdoors into telecommunications for a long time. See their tapping of all international underwater cables (and back in the 80's I heard a second-hand report that they had commissioned some high-powered scanners that could read the contents of most mail envelopes, which were positioned to read most international mail). [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip