This is a fair counter, but I feel like we already have examples of how the government would respond there.  We might have to switch analogies, but wouldn&#x27;t encryption then be like a weapon.  The goal would then shift to being about deproliferation.  The fact that nuclear weapons or AK47s already exist doesn&#x27;t prevent the government from preventing regular people from acquiring or using them.  Maybe preventing new products from entering the market and flooding the market with faulty products (encryption with backdoors) is a good way of combating what is already out there.