> If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?
Have you ever watched a Saturday morning cartoon? Minions betray their masters all the time. An effective evil overlord doesn’t underestimate their lackey’s capacity for duplicity and betrayal at a pivotal moment.
The most fun may even appreciate the gall: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nagus_(episode)#:~:...
Once it's backdoored you don't know who's watching it.
It's the most hilarious thing about backdoors or collecting extensive covert intel on your own population, that any failure of opsec makes it much easier for all your adversaries to also spy on them in ways they would never otherwise be able to, then compromise them, and flip them.
Why would there be a source for a backdoor of a closed source application?
House (legislative branch) staffers presumably don't want executive branch snoops reading their group chats. Doubly so for Democratic staffers not wanting specifically the Trump executive branch reading them.
Source?
>Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?