I agree he&#x27;s screwing around. They do care, though, because encryption makes their job more difficult. They want to be able to go through every potential source of usable intel as quickly as possible. Can&#x27;t do that if they&#x27;re having to sneak around with backdoors on a per device basis. They&#x27;d rather use the backdoors for attacks on high-priority targets who are dodging other stuff.<p>Snowden leaks confirmed that hypothesis. Probably still true for economic reasons as other commenter noted.