In a recent court case (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/21/gang-found-guilty-of-uks-largest-known-gun-smuggling-operation) -
Officers from the National Crime Agency, which led the investigation into the smuggling, breached the PGP (pretty good privacy) encryption software installed on multiple BlackBerry phones used by the group to intercept messages as the trafficking took place. The UK is only the third country in the world, after Canada and the Netherlands, to have publicly said its law enforcers have been able to breach the PGP programme for encrypting data.
It's not real PGP they're talking here, just Blackberry's implementation, for which RIM gets all the keys and hands them over to LE if requested.
It's quite easy to "breach" any crypto system, when someone gives you the privkeys etc. and you don't actually do any work yourself to crack anything.
It's just fear-mongering & FUD. Never trust a commercial corporation to handle your encryption. This is what happens.
What do you think, u/sapiophile?