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Microsoft founder Gates backs FBI in encryption fight with Apple
Fox News ^ | 2/24/2016 | Unknown

Posted on 03/20/2016 8:06:50 AM PDT by Scutter

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has broken with other Silicon Valley giants by backing the FBI in its battle with Apple over hacking into a locked iPhone as part of the investigation into last December's San Bernardino terror attack.

In an interview with the Financial Times published Tuesday, Gates said a court order requiring Apple to help the FBI access a work phone belonging to gunman Syed Farook was " 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."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apple; fbi; microsoft; privacy
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To: CincyRichieRich

Yes, he’s also one of the ones pushing gun control here n Washington state. Seems to be getting more liberal the older he gets,


21 posted on 03/20/2016 9:08:02 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter

22 posted on 03/20/2016 9:15:12 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Scutter

What is on the killer’s phone that is not available from provider’s phone records (numbers, time duration), GPS tracking records (location over time), emails (archiving) from internet providers???? NSA is supposed track terrorists!?!
All that can be acquired without having the physical phone.

It all looks like another version of going after the gun ban after random killing.

What is left of citizen’s privacy ???
You already pay for your phone that gives the almighty government free access to your private activity.
Yeah, freedom for terrorists, spying on citizens!


23 posted on 03/20/2016 9:17:08 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Scutter
Bill Gates did have a problem back in the Clinton reign when Janet Reno wanted him to provide a back door to his computers. He said no and caught the anger of the Clinton administration.

But now he is for it? How did that work?

When Gates began his Foundation he looked around for people he figured were smarter than him on all the issues that concerned him and could help him with what he wanted to do with his Foundation. So, he hired ex-Clinton staffers who schooled him "properly."

They have determined his approach to education and international birth control and why it is good for the government to have a back door to everyone's computers.

24 posted on 03/20/2016 9:20:04 AM PDT by Slyfox (Donald Trump's First Principle is the Art of the Deal)
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To: Scutter

People are realizing that smart devices are dumb. Bill Gates is a eugenisist and overall NWO bad guy. Rejecting his advice and opinions is typically a smart move.
There is a new trend with people moving back to older phones & appliances, real books, old cars.


25 posted on 03/20/2016 9:34:12 AM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Carl Vehse

LOL


26 posted on 03/20/2016 9:53:40 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter

Want to keep your $45 billion? We you have to play ball with the powers that be and support the progressive welfare and warfare state.


27 posted on 03/20/2016 9:54:54 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: grumpygresh

I like my smartphone, but I am not one of those folks you see with their head buried in it all the time.


28 posted on 03/20/2016 9:55:23 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter

Gates is insulated from his idiotic prescriptions by his massive wealth. Just like that other idiot Zuckerberg.


29 posted on 03/20/2016 10:03:34 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Scutter

Every version of WINDOWS ever released has a Known Back Door for the NSA, so this is not surprising.


30 posted on 03/20/2016 10:26:13 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Scutter

2/24/16 is the article date. The article has since then been trash canned so save the FR bandwidth for current developments in the case.


31 posted on 03/20/2016 10:47:58 AM PDT by DuhYup (The Bill of Rights is a package deal!)
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To: Scutter

Is the government petitioning Microsoft for them to write special code so they can access phones that the gov’t cant access at the present time?


32 posted on 03/20/2016 10:59:32 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Da Coyote

“Gates backs Common Core.”

For your children.


33 posted on 03/20/2016 12:10:08 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: MortMan

Oh, he understands.m he’s just lying. MS sold out to big gov years ago. Big time NWO supporter.


34 posted on 03/20/2016 12:20:49 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Scutter

how can we trust that gates actually said this or was his message hacked.

hmmmm?


35 posted on 03/20/2016 12:42:04 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: DuhYup

Who made you the post police? I searched and didn’t see it.


36 posted on 03/20/2016 1:10:03 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: eyeamok

Interesting. Got some proof of this?


37 posted on 03/20/2016 1:11:48 PM PDT by Scutter
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38 posted on 03/20/2016 2:26:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Scutter
Windows 10 was recently approved by the US military as meeting their security standards. You won’t find Apple in that club.

The the military must have a list of every setting necessary to keep Windows 10 from phoning home and reporting on the computer or updating it without permission. I know I haven't found all of those settings.

39 posted on 03/20/2016 4:52:42 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: Scutter

The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors).

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html


40 posted on 03/30/2016 6:28:51 AM PDT by eyeamok
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