&gt; which might have been displaced later by other countries&#x27; agencies or top-level hackers in 2012 and 2014<p>Which is why deliberately compromising crypto is short sighted and dangerous.<p>At the moment the faustian bargain looks tempting: access all those secrets for national security. Until the whole compromised stack is exploited by a foreign power, and Mephistopheles will show up on the Senate floor demanding our soul. And the politicians will be clambering over each other to appear like they always thought it was a bad idea.