Basing an indictment on what a salesperson says while trying to sell a product is fundamentally ridiculous. Obviously a salesperson is going to be as positive

Basing an indictment on what a salesperson says while trying to sell a product is fundamentally ridiculous. Obviously a salesperson is going to be as positive as possible and respond affirmatively to everything the person they are selling to says. Even if the guy said: "we designed these phones specifically for international drug traffickers" that still does not prove anything because it is just a hypothetical to illustrate that the technology is robust in adversarial environments. The whole thing is really very embarrassing for the FBI. They can't make any real cases and so they come up with this as an excuse. Meanwhile, impact on real world crime is zero (or worse) because this just shows criminals, once again, that they cannot trust any centralized service or device and to either stay off electronics entirely or build your own in house.