The federal government has pushed to convince tech companies to build backdoors that will, allegedly, only be used by law enforcement agencies. The problem, cybersecurity researchers say, is that those backdoors can easily be exploited by criminals. To many, the idea of installing backdoors into encryption is antithetical to encryptions very purposesecurity. Backdoors would allow law enforcement to access, unscramble, and read encrypted data stored on devices and sent across secure messaging services, they say.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2019/08/backdoors-are-a-security-vulnerability/