> he's counting on a lay audience not knowing the distinction between an engineering principle mostly unknown at the time something was designed, and a literal backdoor.
When you discount his theories with that argument, your own reductio ad Lizardum (?) doesn’t help. There’s a world of distinction between NSA inserting backdoors, for which there’s good evidence but maybe not every time, and whatever you’re trying to paint his theory as by invoking the Lizard People.
You haven't explained how my argument discounts his theories. You're just unhappy that I used the term "Lizard People". Ok: I retract "Lizard People". Where does that leave your argument?
When you discount his theories with that argument, your own reductio ad Lizardum (?) doesn’t help. There’s a world of distinction between NSA inserting backdoors, for which there’s good evidence but maybe not every time, and whatever you’re trying to paint his theory as by invoking the Lizard People.