In 1998, a report by wayne madsen revealed that the swiss cryptographic company crypto ag had built backdoors into some of its products, and had provided the u. s. government with details of how to exploit these backdoors. as a result, america was able to read the communications of several countries. in 1991 the assassins who killed shahpour bakhtiar, the exiled former iranian prime minister, were caught to the interception and backdoor decipherment of iranian messages encrypted using crypto ag equipment. in this paragraph, the author uses a real-life example to demonstrate how cryptography
can the government.
can be dangerous.
is a swiss specialty.
is unreasonably expensive.

A) can help the government.

Explanation: In the given excerpt we can see the description of how the presence of backdoors into some of the products of the Swiss cryptographic company Crypto AG, helped the U.S. Government to read the communications of several countries, and therefore in 1991 to catch the assassins of the exiled former Iranian prime minister, so according to this information author uses a real-life example to demonstrate how cryptography  can help the government.

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