History repeats
Stalin made all locksmiths and lock manufacturers register with the KGB to ensure that the population does not have access to a safe which would give the KGB search team hard time. The official reasoning was to ensure that thieves do not have access to high end tools to pick locks. This is an idea from the same songbook.
It does not work - it affects the legitimate use(rs) and the ones that it is trying to hinder find a way around it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
