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One disgruntled/bribed/blackmailed employee with access. Without knowing how many that is and what measures are in place to stop those people it isn't possible to quantify the risk.

Note that I'm not defending the idea of encryption backdoors. I still believe they are a bad idea, period. I'm just getting annoyed that the pro-encryption crowd here and on other tech sites is engaging in the same kind of out-of-touch hyperbole that the anti-encryption crowd is.




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