If one understands the problem then one understands the remedies - encryption technology used to be prohibited from export - (that is, “codes” and other methods of using unique keys or algorithms that allow for secure communications) - get this - under “munitions”. That’s right, the federal government considered these things as dangerous as explosives. And, they’re probably right. Hell, you know they’re right. But what good is scanning everybodys’ hard-drive gonna do?
What the government needs to do is streamline, lose the buearacracy and learn to delegate fine distinctions and common sense to the folks charged with these jobs. That means hiring good people who are competent and prescient, etc.
They only made it illegal to export encription technology so that the average citizen could not legally export it. They did that to ensure that the crooked politicans and traitors such as Bill Clinton would be able sell it to our enemies.