Thomas Massie: “Thank you, Judge Poe, for introducing this amendment. This was substantially the same amendment that we offered last…”

“Thank you, Judge Poe, for introducing this amendment. This was substantially the same amendment that we offered last summer that passed with a veto-proof majority 293-123. Back doors are bad for three reasons. When the government forces companies to put back doors or weaken their encryption, it is bad for security because hackers are going to find these back doors and other foreign countries will find these back doors. It is bad for privacy because the Fourth Amendment can be violated. And it is bad for business. As my colleague Zoe Lofgren from California mentioned, it is bad for business because it makes us less competitive overseas. Who wants to buy a piece of defective software that was made defective by our government? So I urge Members to vote for this amendment because it would prevent all of these bad things from occurring.”