These "backdoors" are for court authorized wiretapping (The Communications Act of 1934). This is not some kind of a dark conspiracy. Our government argues that

These "backdoors" are for court authorized wiretapping (The Communications Act of 1934). This is not some kind of a dark conspiracy. Our government argues that wiretapping is an essential tool for law enforcement. [1] The NSA does have a program to intercept traffic [2]. But that's not what got hacked here. I do blame CISA and NSA though for not protecting the system well enough. [1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/litigation_news/29-1-history-and-law-of-wiretapping.pdf https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/lit... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM