Using an intentionally built in Windows backdoor, it did, yes. Instead they relied on good ol' completely unencrypted traffic flowing across wires they had hooks in.

It did though, didn't it? Intelligence organisations worldwide execute their operations in total secrecy and have hidden agreements with international counterparts to share information on each others' citizens in a way that bypasses the laws and constitutions of their host nations. Secret plans that circumvent the law is pretty much the definition of conspiracy.

They weren't breaking your crypto to snoop on you though. Turns out the public information about you is enough to generate a pretty reliable profile of a person.

It was MS who named it, probably

Maybe that was the incompetence you guys are talking about.