Have you heard about FISA courts? They can issue warrants for surveillance and the affected company is not allowed to disclose this. As a HN reader, it is likel

Have you heard about FISA courts? They can issue warrants for surveillance and the affected company is not allowed to disclose this. As a HN reader, it is likely you know about it but most people probably don't. Still, if a federal agent comes along with a warrant, they'll have to comply. My point is, I personally can't be sure there is no mechanism, legal or illegal, via which the NSA can just compel them to hand over the keys. Who knows, maybe there exists a FOOBAR law that compells them to build backdoors into their products. Maybe they're doing it voluntarily outside of the law. I would assume everything can be trivially hacked nowadays, and a large portion of intelligence analysts spend their time on parallel construction (i.e. creating alternative stories about how they gatheried their evidence, without giving away their abilities).