What Director Comey doesn't seem to understand is that just like the TSA luggage keys there is no going back. Unless we can trust every person who could possibly hold the backdoor key (for all time) it's just a matter of time before everything encrypted with it is unencrypted.

>And, he said: “I’ve never heard anybody say those companies are fundamentally insecure and fatally flawed from a security perspective.”

Well, if person A wants to send a private message to person B and someone else has access to that message, that's a security flaw. The fact that companies do it all the time with email, IM and cloud services doesn't negate that.