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Of course not. Even if there were any legitimate need for a government backdoor, it's also a backdoor to everyone else
It will be a back door illicit entities know is their, all time spent attempting to discover it is worth the effort.
It is one thing to look for backdoors if you don’t know they exist or not, because eventually you need to move on.
As always, for any question asked in the title of a news item, the answer is "no".