FBI executive calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent open reserve issue’

NEW YORK – Law enforcement’s inability to entrance electronic inclination due to absolute encryption is an “urgent open reserve issue,” FBI Director Christopher Wray pronounced on Tuesday, in remarks that sought to rekindle a quarrelsome discuss over remoteness and security.

Technology companies and many digital confidence experts have pronounced a FBI’s attempts to need inclination concede investigators a approach to entrance a rapist suspect’s phone would mistreat internet confidence and commission antagonistic hackers.