"Internal NSA presentation slides included in the various media disclosures show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.[2] Snowden summarized that "in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want."[13]"
That would fully qualify as a "magical backdoor" in my opinion. Companies stated as participating in the PRISM program include Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Apple, among others.
"Internal NSA presentation slides included in the various media disclosures show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.[2] Snowden summarized that "in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want."[13]"
That would fully qualify as a "magical backdoor" in my opinion. Companies stated as participating in the PRISM program include Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Apple, among others.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)