The NSA is not going to tip its hand about any backdoors it had built into the hardware for something as small as this.

It depends on if parallel reconstruction can be used to provide deniability.

	▲	chuckadams 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even a parallel construction has limited uses, since you can't use the same excuse every time. The NSA probably doesn't trust the FBI to come up with something plausible.