I have no real comment, other than to parrot what others have said for decades: a back door for the “good guys” can be used by the bad guys, too.
"[T]he AP won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for stories revealing that the New York Police Department — headed by Commissioner Raymond Kelly — had built an aggressive domestic intelligence program after the Sept. 11 attacks that put Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups under scrutiny." in 2012 <https://www.ap.org/media-center/ap-in-the-news/2012/ap-serie...>
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service, "For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security." went to... The Washington Post. <https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-1>
Storied reporter Seymour Hersh received the 1974 George Polk Award for National Reporting, "for revealing extensive illegal domestic CIA surveillance in the Nixon years", Operation CHAOS, a CIA domestic espionage project targeting American citizens operating from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon, whose mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war, and other protest movements. <https://www.liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners#1974>