&gt; The point of banning encryption isn&#x27;t too stop criminals from using it, it&#x27;s to stop non-criminals.<p>It&#x27;s not an either&#x2F;or situation, banning encryption is designed primarily to stop criminals from using it. It is also effective. It&#x27;s obviously not 100% effective, it&#x27;s probably more like 75% effective. I think you&#x27;re assuming that most of the people arguing for prohibition are dreaming of a police state, and I think you&#x27;re constructing an oversimplification that doesn&#x27;t acknowledge the facts.