Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'm going to start with Mr. McGuire.
Something I find contradictory in this bill—maybe you can explain how it's not contradictory—is that you're requiring electronic service providers and telecoms to create the systems to enable the interception of communications within their networks, yet later you say that nothing in this bill seeks to undermine the integrity of encryption networks. That seems very contradictory to me.
In light of the Salt Typhoon hack we saw in the United States.... It was later found that it was exactly the vulnerabilities created by the requirements under U.S. law to create these encryption back doors that allowed hackers to access this information.
Can you explain what this contradiction appears to be?