FBI's (recently fired) James Comey has been asking for an encryption backdoor for the past 3 years:
2014: https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-...
At that time, he said unbreakable encryption should be illegal: http://www.newsweek.com/going-not-so-bright-fbi-director-jam...
2015 (asking for a backdoor): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief...
2016 (same): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/fbi-is-asking-co...
2016 (tried to force apple to create a backdoor for the iphone): https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
And then here recently, he's upped it to an international agreement to create a backdoor: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170327/10121437009/james...
He's not the first, only, or last person to ask for it.
FBI's (recently fired) James Comey has been asking for an encryption backdoor for the past 3 years:
2014: https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-...
At that time, he said unbreakable encryption should be illegal: http://www.newsweek.com/going-not-so-bright-fbi-director-jam...
2015 (asking for a backdoor): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief...
2016 (same): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/fbi-is-asking-co...
2016 (tried to force apple to create a backdoor for the iphone): https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
And then here recently, he's upped it to an international agreement to create a backdoor: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170327/10121437009/james...
He's not the first, only, or last person to ask for it.