Governments are scared and reacting. The English inventors of public key cryptography are almost unknown because their invention was kept secret. In the United States, the government has floated several key escrow proposals to mandate that it have a back door to any conversation and has restricted the export of strong cryptography as munitions. Opposition to government schemes has proven once again that politics makes strange bedfellows. Criminals are aligned with big business.
Moral conservatives link up with isolationists.
And anyone who gets the special FBI briefing on what is really going on in cryptography and crime immediately sides with the FBI, no matter what their previous position.