Since Applied Cryptograhy and everyday since publication it's been well-known and well-understood that NSA's never-ending efforts to weaken systems to make it easier for them to do their work wrecks havoc and costs billions to everyone else. Luckily their attempt to get everyone to adopt a PRNG that was broken on-purpose was thwarted.

But who's to say that any chipmaker gets bribed to backdoor their design to allow the reading of any page of RAM from any protection level doesn't happen? It would make their job super easy.