Why am I not surprised?
My question to the Microsoft representative was whether she’d be allowed to disclose if there are deliberate back doors in their systems, in the event that there are. She never responded to that question, but obviously, she didn’t have to. From other sources, we know that the NSA always prohibits the private companies they force into cooperation from disclosing any of it.
This reminds me of how Apple and Google were prohibited from disclosing that they were forced to turn over user push notification data.