My problem with this isn’t that they would wiretap with a court order. My beef is that they’re going to require companies to spend money to make their (the government’s) job easier. If I were a developer, I’d be saying, “wait a second, so now I’ve got to build in functionality YOU want, on my own dime, instead of spending time developing feature X?”

The other concern is how backdoors like this have been used by hackers in the past to compromise security. If I’m a developer, I don’t want to say “we have an absolutely secure platform that nobody can get into . . . except for this backdoor that the government made us build into the platform.”