mr. steinbeck and said technology moves faster legislation, a lot faster. you characterize the fbi has labeling this going dark. it it is increasingly difficult to monitor the communications with them terrorist networks. the networks. the proliferation of often encrypted covert, coded information to prevent unauthorized use from skype to gaming forms to other new technology has made surveillance tremendous technologically demanding in some cases virtually impossible. moreover, apple's latest's latest mobile operating system came with a default encryption and google's android is soon to follow. in these systems companies do not have access to their customers passwords and thus cannot capture there messages. now messages. now, from a customer standpoint from a consumer standpoint that is a good thing but those who are malicious the malignancy of terror takes away a major tool that law enforcement use to thwart terrorist activity in its planning stages. so could you comment on that and what it is, if anything, we can be doing? there was a time when publicly on

mr. stooen steinbeck, technology moves faster than legislation. a lot faster. you characterize the fbi as labeling this going dark. it's increasingly difficult to monitor the communications within terrorist networks. proliferation of often encrypted, coded information to prevent unauthorized use from skype to gaming forums to other new technology has made surveillance tremendous technologically demanding in some cases virtually impossible. the latest operating system came with a default encryption and google's android is soon to follow. companies do not have access to passwords and thus can't capture their messages. now from a consumer standpoint, that's a very good thing. but those who are malicious, the malignancy of terror it takes away a major tool that law enforcement uses to thwart terrorist activity in its planning stages. so could you comment on that and what it is, if anything we can be doing? there was a time when publicly owned telephone companies were all too willing to cooperate with law enforcement agencies for wiretaps and those kinds of things.