[Izzy Dunne]

Bush also criticized private technology firms for using encryption to make it harder for their customers to be surveilled. "It makes it harder for the American government to do its job while protecting civil liberties to make sure evildoers aren't in our midst," he said.

Somebody should tell him that weaker encryption makes it harder for the "evildoers" to break INTO the gubmint info places.

Somebody should 'splain to him that the 'evildoers' are sometimes IN the gubmint.

[John S Mosby]

Yes, indeed— per my post/comments #13 below.