So did they!
However recent revalations of the Feds covertly supplying "totally secure" encrypted phones to numerous narco traffickers, human traffickers and selected terrorists points to the Feds being the instigators and the initiators of these high tech secure exploits.
Reminds me of Mossad covertly selling cellphones to al Qaeda Terrorists at bargain prices, ... I got a bang out of that.
So did they!