I'll repeat my question, which you ignored in favor of quibbling with a tangential point: What makes you think U.S. law treats makers of products any differently, assuming TrueCrypt's creators and maintainers can be identified?
Something must be wrong because this is 100% the question I believe I responded to. I will attempt so again now:
* Statute gives the government the right to compel certain service providers to actively assist in wiretapping. Example law: CALEA
* There is no U.S. law that gives the government the right to compel arbitrary third-parties to modify their products to make wiretapping easier.
You give a long list of bad things the USG has done, but none of them involve vendors being compelled to modify products.
(In another domain, banks have to report transactions over 10K, but that's completely the result of statute, the Bank Secrecy Act.)
> There is no U.S. law that gives the government the right to compel arbitrary third-parties to modify their products to make wiretapping easier
This is an interesting claim. It would be more interesting if the U.S. government publicly said its interpretation of the law is the same as yours. It has not. :)
Something must be wrong because this is 100% the question I believe I responded to. I will attempt so again now:
* Statute gives the government the right to compel certain service providers to actively assist in wiretapping. Example law: CALEA
* There is no U.S. law that gives the government the right to compel arbitrary third-parties to modify their products to make wiretapping easier.
You give a long list of bad things the USG has done, but none of them involve vendors being compelled to modify products.
(In another domain, banks have to report transactions over 10K, but that's completely the result of statute, the Bank Secrecy Act.)