content: First off fuck you.  Secondly how many times must we be told there's all these holes in the security of our computer chips before we have to accept that they're either utterly incompetent or that they've been directed to leave such obvious holes in their security? Which seems the more likely in a time where lots of stuff hits the patent office only to be held back in the interests of nation security?  Could it possibly be that computers capable to encryption can totally thwart all forms of government interference as the police would like you to believe or could it possibly be that if such a thing were possible that it would be banned by an alphabet agency saying since they can't access it it's unacceptable?  Personally I believe the latter more than I do a high tech company hiring incompetent staff.  Sure the police might have issues but if the alphabet agencies couldn't access absolutely everything it wouldn't be allowed and you'd be a fool to think that a single exploit is acceptable to them.  They'd want redundancies for their redundancies which is why articles like OP's come out.  First they catch on and learn what to look for and then they find a whole lot more problems with every generation of chip released.  It happens with them all and it has to be by design at this point because people learn from their mistakes.  They'd fix it to make it impossible to access or it's being forced upon them and my guess, and yes it is a guess because I can't actually prove it, is that it's being forced upon them in the interests of national security and that stepping out of line has their patents sucked into the national security void too.  They're damned if they do and damned if they don't and since they're in the business of making money it's better to release a flawed chip than none at all.