FBI Pushes Legislation to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Web

What I can't figure out is microsoft already have these back doors that hackers exploit day in day out. The solution to me seems obvious: the FBI needs to hire thehackers that "compromise the system and allow the attacker to takecontrol".

No, there's no way they do. If such a back door were ever,ever found out about outside the super-secret cabal withinthe company that made it, it would in an instant destroy thecompany. I mean, if people found out tomorrow that Windows had aback door, and it had been discovered, MS stock wouldplummet faster than a Canadian hang glider.

If you want it done privately, use encryption. Or turn-off yoursmartphone and do it in person(during hoping a security cameradoesn't take your picture).

...the dramatic shift in communication from the telephonesystem to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents towiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities...