Think about it, if it were that easy our entire infrastructure would fall apart. Have there been significant vulnerabilities found over the last few years? Yes - and they’re fixed (Spectre would be very difficult to really abuse). We’re a large software house and use a lot of open source software. There’s no built-in backdoor in anything we ship. We pay 3rd parties to try to hack into our stuff.
I just don’t buy into these articles because they’re just hypothesizing - they don’t really know...along with the landscape changing all the time. There’s well proven encryption libraries that are open sourced and have had very serious people look at them for a long time.
The fact that the government wants device manufacturers to be required to provide some form of backdoor is the biggest indicator that they’re challenged by them.
#2: Bypassing Encryption
You know how all these companies promise encryption and some even charge more for the service? Guess what? It doesn’t matter! Vault 7 leaked docs shows that the CIA is getting audio files before they get encrypted. The CIA can hack into your phone, compromise your operating system and suck up your messages before they’re encrypted and sent. It doesn’t matter what precautions you’ve taken. Encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and many more are vulnerable.
https://wakeup-world.com/2017/03/15/wikileaks-cia-vault-7-leaks-the-top-15-discoveries-and-implications-so-far/