„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,“ Comey said at Boston College‘s cybersecurity conference on Wednesday.

„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.“