Obviously. But where is the difference? If the NSA is reading your texts through the physical phone hardware or reading them off the wire, it's the same thing.

Obviously. But where is the difference? If the NSA is reading your texts through the physical phone hardware or reading them off the wire, it's the same thing. In fact it's scarier if there is an encryption backdoor on their software, since it could be read remotely much easier. If Amazon hardware is compromised, there's no reason to assume their AWS platform isn't compromised. And that puts a backdoor in a lot of web applications.