I had a similar thought, although my reaction was more along the lines of trying to soften the blow of some draconian backdoor policy. That is, "well, what are

I had a similar thought, although my reaction was more along the lines of trying to soften the blow of some draconian backdoor policy. That is, "well, what are you worried about with crippled encryption? We made it harder to get permission to access your email, so now it's ok if we require a backdoor for the government on all encryption."