Comey either knows what additional effect a backdoor in encryption will have (in addition to providing him access) or he doesn't.<p>If he does then he's either a traitor or an idiot and not capable of fulfilling his role, and if he doesn't then he's an idiot and not capable of fulfilling his role.<p>This is his strike 3, after the iPhone debacle where even the NSA told him to stop being an idiot and the Clinton email investigation.<p>2/3rds of crypto is non-US made ( <a href="https://www.schneier.com/paper-worldwide.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.schneier.com/paper-worldwide.html</a> ) so this backdoor will only affect US citizens/companies and only they will be vulnerable to it, it'll decimate the industry there.