Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:16AM from the c'mon-bill-you-were-doing-so-well dept.

Fudge Factor 3000 writes: Bill Gates has now publicly stated that Apple should cooperate with the FBI in the San Bernadino terrorist's phone unlocking case. He states that it is for this specific case, but seems to miss the point that there are other law enforcement officials waiting on the wings with their requests should this precedent be set. The war against privacy escalates. Setting aside the actual practicality of unlocking the San Bernadino phone, the teams that are emerging on this issue include some pretty strange bedfellows: John McAfee and Bill Gates on the pro-unlocking side, and Woz, Edward Snowden and even some of the victim's families on the con.

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Re:Is that by Lead+Butthead · 2016-02-23 04:53 · Score: 1, Troll

Windows 10 does send information back to Microsoft, but nothing personal aside from anonymous telemetry data. It's not stealing documents, it's not stealing photos, it's doing the same thing OS X does, it's doing the same thing Android does, it's doing the same thing Ubuntu did.
.. and that ... makes it okay. Are you f_cking kidding me?

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