Agreed, but it&#x27;s still a massive improvement over mandating that all encryption used by citizens be thoroughly crippled. The status quo should be that the degree to which Government can intrude into citizens privacy is limited by law and subject to open public debate. We&#x27;re not quite there yet, either in the US or here in the UK, but dropping the idea of crippled encryption is at least a step back from the brink even if it&#x27;s not enough steps back for my liking. It&#x27;s at least an implicit acknowledgement that the EFF&#x2F;privacy hippies aren&#x27;t completely wrong.