If they’re talking about PCs, which is most everyone’s concern, it sounds like a great opportunity for some American entrepreneur to make a fortune selling “high security” computers, with guaranteed hardware all made in the US and tightly quality controlled.
Granted, there may be overt, or covert requirements mandating USG backdoors, such as the CALEA, to prevent anyone from keeping any secrets from government voyeurism, but at least you can keep out most foreign government and corporations trying to spy on you.
But the bottom line is that there are so many dark and downright evil forces at work trying to end the Internet and the free exchange of ideas, that sooner or later it will all come crashing down anyway, despite their pleas that to not use the Internet will destroy the economy.
Thus, to the parasites and control freaks, “If you didn’t want to kill the body, then why did you infest every part of it?”
Any PC motherboards still mane in the USA?
Govt back doors can be a problem but the use of national command authority encryption on a second hand laptop that is not ever connected to the web & used only as a crypto machine to encrypt files for a machine that is connected to the web would give the govt. type indigestion. As long as you keep the crypto machine off the web the only way to get info about encryption is by direct access & that causes bad publicity for the govt. flunkies.