Bill Gates backs U.S. government’s iPhone hack request

“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.”

“Mr Gates’s stance sets him apart from the rest of the technology industry, including the company he founded. Satya Nadella, Microsoft chief, has not publicly commented on the matter, but a spokesperson for the Seattle-based company pointed to a statement by the Reform Government Surveillance organisation, of which it is a member, opposing the order,” Foley and Bradshaw report. “Silicon Valley executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief; Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder; and Sundar Pichai, head of Google, have all sided with Mr Cook. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden called the showdown ‘the most important tech case in a decade.'”

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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

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