“Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple and the US government, saying technology companies should be forced to co-operate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations,” Stephen Foley and Tim Bradshaw report for The Financial Times.
“The Microsoft founder took issue with Tim Cook’s characterisation of the government’s order that Apple help break open the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone as a demand for a ‘back door,’ denying that it would set a wider precedent,” Foley and Bradshaw report. “‘This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case,’ Mr Gates told the Financial Times.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The lying old thief, who built his whole life upon a stolen foundation and, for doing so, got tagged a “genius” by idiots, doesn’t fully understand the issue. Big surprise.
See: U.S. government seeks to force Apple to extract data from a dozen more iPhones – February 23, 2016
Keep trying to build your stairway to heaven that’ll never come close to reaching, you increasingly addled thief.
The damage Bill Gates did to world productivity by greedily inflicting The Dark Age of Personal Computing upon the planet is incalculable and criminal. — MacDailyNews, July 5, 2010
SEE ALSO:
U.S. government seeks to force Apple to extract data from a dozen more iPhones – February 23, 2016
Apple CEO Cook: They’d have to cart us out in a box before we’d create a backdoor – February 22, 2016
Tim Cook’s memo to Apple employees: ‘This case is about more than a single phone’ – February 22, 2016
Obama administration: We’re only demanding Apple hack just one iPhone – February 17, 2016Microsoft CEO Nadella should be questioning Bill Gates’ credentials as ‘technology advisor’ – February 6, 2014
Forbidden fruit: Bill Gates’ kids banned from owning superior Apple products – December 31, 2012
Steve Jobs on Bill Gates: ‘Unimaginative; he just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas’ – October 24, 2011
Paul Allen: Working with Bill Gates like being in hell – April 18, 2011
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invests in Monsanto – August 26, 2010
1998 Bill Gates: I can’t figure out why Jobs is even trying to be Apple CEO; he knows he can’t win – April 11, 2010
Bill Gates: ‘There’s nothing on iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it’’ – February 10, 2010
Microsoft’s Gates tries FUD to keep people from switching to Apple’s secure Mac – February 12, 2007
Bill Gates unhinged with Apple envy; Microsoft on path to become high profile casualty – February 06, 2007
Bill Gates has lost his mind: calls Apple liars, copiers; slams Mac OS X security vs. Windows – February 02, 2007
Gates bristles over Vista, Mac OS X comparisons – January 29, 2007
Bill Gates confronted by glowing Apple logos as every single blogger at meeting uses Macs – December 15, 2006
Emperor Gates’ new clothes: the failed mainstream Tablet PC – August 22, 2005
Bill Gates’ ‘charity’ foundation finances U.S. newspaper purchases – August 21, 2006
Bill Gates’ sarcasm regarding Apple iPod: ‘Oh, wow, I don’t think we can do that’ – September 07, 2004
Of course. Idiot.
Not surprised. Microsoft doesn’t have much of a bone in this fight since their mobile device market is tepid at best and this would be a good way to passively aggressively put a black eye on a competitor.
Not too surprising actually. The reason Windows as an OS is so prone to viruses is primarily because Microsoft’s stance was that a partnering corporation should be able to install/retrieve information from your computer without you having to approve it.
This is why the government didn’t press charges of monopoly against Microshit.
Gates – a progressive/elite – wants the government (made up of the ruling class) to have even more power.
Don’t be foolish to think that this is about a terrorist phone. This, my friends, is about the power grab. They want more of it. When they get more of it you lose just a little more of your freedom to them.
When they get serious about protecting our citizens by addressing the current Islamoterrorist crisis appropriately (or even able to under the word Islamoterrorist) and protect our borders, then I might think they truly have our interests in mind.
Don’t forget, how did this Terrorist get into our country to perform her deadly feat to begin with?? Currently the elites running our government have no concerns about our safety and are only interested in teaching America a lesson in how evil America is. Frankly, I’m sick of their Marxist crap.
I’m sick of their know it all attitude. I’m sick of their elitists approach. Our America was based on a government run by the citizens for the sake of the citizens. This is not happening currently. This has to change.
Vote for a constitutional conservative to begin the long road back to our country being based on the Constitution and on the power being with people not with the government elites and the ruling class.
Gates is a progressive/elite. Guess what, so was Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook is now.
Elitism is not a left/right thing. Your conservative/elites are every bit as power-hungry, just in different ways.
There is a dearth of political commentary from jobs. He was a liberal in voting, I suspect, (if he bothered), but definitely not in actions, expressed opinions, rhetoric, and the way he ran his company. He was an individualist, an egoist, and conveyed dislike of unions, collectives, and other groups. He was skeptical of government power, unabashedly anti-authoritarian, and not prone to compromise. In other words he was the opposite of modern liberalism for the most part. Like most in Silicon Valley he skewed libertarian, or what might be defined as classical liberal. My guess is that he didn’t spend a great deal of time considering his “political identity.” His image as a liberal comes from growing up in the 60s, and being immersed in the whole hippie world as a kid. As an adult though, his propensity for rational self interest and dedication to excellence was more akin to Objectivism than modern liberalism aka progressivism.
To Jobs progress came from new and better products, not telling other people how to live their lives, or using the government to inflict his opinions on others. He would, I suspect, tell the government to go fuck themselves concerning any iPhone backdoors. Though I doubt he would whine to the public like Tim Cook. In fact I doubt he would entertain any of Tim Cook’s public social justice campaigns. On issues of diversity, my guess is that if he reacted at all he would simply say that Apple will always hire the best candidate notwithstanding race, gender, sexual orientation, or anything else. And that would be it.
Of the social ills he spoke of, he clearly cared about education. Public education was failing and in his opinion it was in no small part due to teacher’s unions. His anti-union efforts were taken up by his widow.
Consequently Jobs was anything but a member of the liberal political elite. Was he an elitist? I believe yes, when it can me to building the best products possible for the non-elite, aka “the rest of us.”
Gates on the other hand seems to be suffering a bout of megalomania as of late. I.e. Progressive elitism personified. He’s got that leftie disorder that makes it impossible to actually believe anyone disagrees with him.
Well said T M, on both posts! Thanks!
Talk about hitting the nail squarely on the head. THANX!
Liberal … likely, Elitist? Not the Steve Jobs I remember! Nor would I say Tim is an elitist.
You left off in your comment: He got rich selling an OS highly lacking in security. He could care less. On top of his shallow thinking – or is this yet another sneaky game of manipulation to gain some sort of business benefit – he does still own as does his foundation tons of MS stock.
“He could care less.” I believe you meant this: “He couldn’t care less.”
I do agree with your otherwise excellent comment.
Microsoft Windows and Office IS A BACKDOOR in and of itself.
Twice convicted.
Gates “architected” an operating system that’s been hacked thousands of times. He fundamentally doesn’t get security.
Well, since Microsoft CEO isn’t too anxious in having an opinion, they push the old NSA-buddy Gates to have one.
NSA-buddy gates even created the windows NSA_KEY backdoor as a special favor for his spook pals.
Not surprised. It’s easier than ever to switch from Microsoft products these days- Microsoft knows it. So they have to cling to any remaining strongholds they have to remain relevant- witness the DoD purchase of Windows 10. The government is one such stronghold. And even though Gates doesn’t get a paycheck from MS anymore, he’s still their biggest representative. For Gates to come out against the FBI and DOJ in this matter would be a potential death knell for their government business. And of course for support of his corrupt foundation.
The bigger question is, why would any arm of our ‘trusted’ government trust MS products anymore?
Because they helped make them and now the government owns them. You think Steve Jobs succeded by cozying up to the government?
it occurs to me that all those weaknesses in microsoft’s operating system were put there intentionally by microsoft so the government could take advantage of them. i never could understand how they could be so incompetent. they weren’t; they were doing it on purpose!
Just when I thought I couldn’t think any less of the guy.
FBI to Bill Gates “We need to crack your Windows 10 encryption”
Gates: “Thats easy, Just hit the power button”
Always knew he was micro & soft.
Old Bill kept my breakfast table clean this morning. If I had read that he supported Apple, I would have spit up my morning coffee.
Look at them. Goople sheepishly agrees with Bill Evil Overlord Gates. Now we await the third act to step up and and open their disgusting mouth.
Bill Gate and his foundation have turned even more evil. He and his foundation are backing GMO and testing GMO products on unsuspecting people specially in US. Billions are spent to ensure food does not have to list GMO products. This is legal requirements in most developed countries.
Therefore, I am not surprised that Bill Gate could not care less about individuals’ rights to safety.
Shut Up! And eat some of those vegetarian eggs the Bill Gates startup wants to make.
Makes me want to read carefully all of my Microsoft EULAs.
That MS is trying to force GWX down my throat, corrupting and slowing down the PC which I painstakingly try to keep clean and running smoothly, is no surprise. Its why my next PC will be a Mac.
From my viewpoint Gates reveals himself as the compromiser and opportunist that he is. Insanely compromised products in every way. (Ha, ha, get it? Compromised?)
I think Gates fully understands all implications of the FBI order, but he never gave a sh*t about security or privacy, so what should we expect from him now?
It’s 2005. I’m at a beautifully architected modern community college in the US. I’m on one wing—wide spacious corridor open to the sky. Six class rooms off to the sides and another floor with more classrooms. I look through the windows and each room is full of thirty or so desks each with a PC—sitting there idle, no-one there. It’s during the day. Went there numerous times and only one time there were a few people in one of the rooms. All these PCs paid by the government with Microsoft write-off-education-grants. All the profit from all these PCs went to Bill Gates and his cronies. And this is just one wing of one community college in one town of 9,000 people. This was no doubt happening in towns all over the US. Bill Gates is a power-hungry, money-hungry, double-dealing business tycoon hell-bent on making as much money as he can by whatever conneiving means without a concern for the environmental destruction and waste. Tens of thousands of PCs all over the US sitting idle most of the time, hardly ever used, just so Bill Gates can avoid taxes and at the same time make outrageous profit while coming off as a generous supporter of education. Microsoft, the banks and Wall Street—all sickening money grabs with no concern for the environmental destruction and human suffering/frustration or other important issues such as privacy or security. And then he very publicly gives charity so the final impression joe blow public is left with is “Bill Gates great philanthropist, caring for mankind by funding cures for disease and generously supporting education.” You can’t trust such a double-dealing prick has got the future welfare of humanity at heart when he spouts off about privacy and security.
They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case,’ Mr Gates told the Financial Times.”
Oops. That quaint concept got BLOWN out of the water.
Mr. Gates is no futurist. These days I think of him has have genius, have senile. Some of the things I watched him say while interviewed by Charlie Rose on PBS last night were right out of the loony bin. My favorite was his support for taking sunlight and ‘turning it into gasoline.’ That, obviously, is 100% contrary to the concept of solving The Greenhouse Effect (aka ‘Climate Change’). You don’t burn carbon fuels, you senile dolt, if you want to solve the problem.
Gates also stated “The government has the sovereign right to not be blind” with regard to data collection. I have NO idea what he’s talking about. If a person locks up a private possession such that no one else can ever access it, some mysterious ‘sovereign right’ is going to unlock that private possession for the government? He made NO sense.
Gates’ point of view regarding Apple Vs the FBI Vs The Fourth Amendment is that Apple is likely to lose, but that he sees nothing wrong with Apple forcing the decision regarding the creation of this backdoor up the legal system, even to the supreme court. He refused to take sides in the matter other than that general statement.
Been several years since I thought about that asshole. Bill Gates can go fuck himself. Some of us care about data security.
-jcr
Bill Gates was interviewed by Charlie Rose last night and didn’t sound like he was backing the gov’t at all. This sounds like a mischaracterization of his comments to me. While not backing Apple, Bill Gates basically supported the notion that taking this issue to the Supreme Court was a very worthwhile thing to do—even if Apple ultimately loses the fight.
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