Exactly, and that only means that people behind anti-encryption regulations does not care about national security.

Or they are so painfully incompetent that they don't understand that it is much better if one cannot figure out that some military officer or energy sector/government employee has a lover since such person could be blackmailed by foreign intelligence.

Apparently they don't get that those pesky terrorists can encrypt message by themselves in thousands of ways. Internet is full of information how to do this.