FBI head Christopher Wray: We can't let criminals hide behind encryption

Weaken confidence in services and you will just push the smarter ones further underground, potentially harm businesses and reduce tax revenue. This can also further segment EU and US businesses.

If the goal is just to round up the cannon fodder to meet numbers and get budgets approved, then perhaps you are on the right track. Just use the tried and true method of getting VP's and directors in companies to look the other way in exchange for giving them some favors and making them look pretty. Just be aware that nowadays systems are under more automation and scrutiny, which means your backdoors will be posted on public repositories before long. This may be pushing unfair financial risk on hardware and cloud vendors. Their losses can translate into tax revenue losses.

I don't believe him. He was a political appointee (as all FBI heads are), but he was apparently appointed for a lot of sub rosa reasons. Maybe he's compromised, not to Russians, but maybe allegiance to something other than Law and Order.

Why is there a never ending stream of FBI chiefs who peddles this crap?