--- title: | How the NSA Tried to Backdoor Every Phone date: created: 2025-07-03T20:00:00Z authors: - jordan tags: - The History and Future of the Encryption Wars description: | In a world where everything is highly interconnected, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Intentionally separating different parts of your life can help you with managing stress, with keeping your data secure, and with staying private online. readtime: 9 thumbnail: https://neat.tube/lazy-static/previews/a5ca14cb-0317-4f93-8ac9-ba3257b38b2f.jpg embed: https://neat.tube/videos/embed/qFThArEaKeHtDu78i27F29 peertube: https://neat.tube/w/qFThArEaKeHtDu78i27F29 youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDD37mSA0iw --- Imagine a world where every conversation you had, every message you sent, every piece of data on your phone, was an open book to the government. In 1993, the NSA tried to do just that by inserting a tiny chip into everyone's phone. This is the second part of our series on the Crypto Wars, a monumental moment in history that shaped digital privacy forever. ## Sources 0:38 0:52 0:58 1:02 1:06 1:15 3:43 3:46 4:00 4:07 4:27 5:18 5:49 6:27 7:14 7:15 7:35 7:37