The FBI director, James Comey warned that the chances of collecting evidence through the cyber world are getting narrow when civil liberty groups are expressing fear at the technologies CIA is using to spy electronic devices.
On Wednesday, Comey said in a Cyber Security Conference at Boston College,” Picture a room. There’s always been a corner of the room that was dark to us, where nation-states and the most sophisticated criminals would find ways to encrypt their data.”
“More and more of that room is becoming dark as encryption has become the default, available through a huge number of apps. It becomes a feature of the work of drug dealers, armed robbers, terrorists, pedophiles, and bad people of all sorts.” He added.
Giving an example, Comey said then in a period of last three months of 2016, FBI Labs have received about 2,800 electronic devices sent in by local police and federal agents in search of clue they contain. But “using any technique”, 1200 of them were unable to open.
