FBI Director James Comey testified that encryption continues to be an insurmountable barrier for legal and national security investigators. The government has long hinted at some kind of exceptional access to encrypted data, which many have interpreted as an intentional backdoor left in by technology companies such as Apple and Google. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted a rebuttal to Comey s testimony, pointing out that solutions such as key escrow or splitting keys are untenable complexity or companies simply choosing not to offer encrypted services are equally unacceptable.
Source: https://threatpost.com/fbi-on-encryption-its-a-business-model-question/115622/