Microsoft has been shipping steaming crapola for decades. Their unwieldy and unmaintainable codebase is their own fault. This should not be news to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have to use their awful products.
They sought to dominate the market by means other than having the best talent and shipping the best software. It worked but now they have a problem.
Get a job with a non-Indian company. In my experience Indian companies are bodyshops who'll bleed you dry and treat you like a slave and expect you to thank them for the opportunity.
I don't know about the US but in the UK you are correct. In the UK unless you can unencrypt on demand of court its jail time - end of. I do not think this is obscure or unlikely. It is highly likely that paedophiles will use this network for instance and that somewhere on your computer you'll be storing fragments of child rape videos - a serious crime in itself. You will also be an accessory to the original crime.
We could try it! You can do a home experiment with a bottle, some baking soda and vinegar maybe, a lamp and a thermometer to demonstrate how adding CO2 increases the temperature.