FBI director complains again about encryption making his job difficult

Appearing before the Senate oversight committee yesterday, FBI director James Comey said that the agency during the first half of 2016 was granted legal permission to access more than 6,000 individual mobile devices. However, thanks to increasingly stringent security protocols from device manufacturers, the FBI was unable to access more than 3,000 of them, even when using all of the "appropriate and available technical tools" at the agency's disposal. While Comey has previously stated that he's ...