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Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone for FBI [Updated]
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This isn't even a case where the FBI knows there is information on the iPhone that will allow them to stop another terrorist attack. The two terrorists are already dead. What if Apple gives in, or is forced by the Supreme Court to give in, and the FBI finds absolutely nothing on the phone that they didn't already know? We risk our privacy for nothing?
The world isn't going to crumble in an instant in Apple complies.
But if Apple has to re-develop this hack (after destroying all traces of how they did it the first time), it becomes a practice.
How can Bill Gates, or the FBI claim that this is just a one-time request? Does the statement from the FBI mean that Apple can refuse to do it ever again? Does everyone who's making the claim that it's a singular request agree that this is the only chance they'll get to have Apple disable the passcode retry limit on an iPhone?
If you're really only going to get to do this one time, are you sure you want to waste your one time on an iPhone that probably doesn't contain any useful clues?
The world isn't going to crumble in an instant in Apple complies.
But if Apple has to re-develop this hack (after destroying all traces of how they did it the first time), it becomes a practice.
How can Bill Gates, or the FBI claim that this is just a one-time request? Does the statement from the FBI mean that Apple can refuse to do it ever again? Does everyone who's making the claim that it's a singular request agree that this is the only chance they'll get to have Apple disable the passcode retry limit on an iPhone?
If you're really only going to get to do this one time, are you sure you want to waste your one time on an iPhone that probably doesn't contain any useful clues?
Pretty interesting opinion from a guy who's company sells the OS that leaks the most data in the history of computing.
You should already not trust Microsoft software. They have a long history of rolling over for governments. They signed on early with PRISM (2007), and put a backdoor into Skype to allow collection of chats and to tap into video streams, as well as decrypting and handing over data for the SkyDrive (aka OneDrive) cloud platform.
Just goes to show what we should have known all along--being successful at a business, regardless of how much money you make, does not make you moral nor does it make you wise.
If Apple opens the phone for the FBI and then they find nothing useful....
Oh man....heads will roll
Oh man....heads will roll
I wish Steve Jobs was still alive so he could tear into Bill again.
What you have been saying is madness.
According to the WSJ this isn't about one phone, there are apparently about a dozen iPhones they are wanting to get Apple to hack. Curiouser and curiouser...
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You should have unfollowed him after he started calling for an "infinite" number of H1B visas so he and his buddies could put American programmers out of work and replace them with cheap indian labor.
Speaking as someone who has been seriously eyeing up a Surface Pro for quite a while (as they are really great pieces of tech) I find this kind of naive, almost whimsical attitude to data security a major turnoff.
This whole saga, if I was in the FBI I would be cringing every time I hear this story being mentioned as it apparently is all a result of someone's incompetence.
This whole saga, if I was in the FBI I would be cringing every time I hear this story being mentioned as it apparently is all a result of someone's incompetence.
Here's the problem with this being a 1 time thing (allegedly): what stops any other government from demanding the same thing once Apple has acquiesced and done it? What stops China or Russia from demanding access to an iPhone of a political dissident? The short view that people seem to be having when they say Apple should just go along with this doesn't seem to take that view into account.
It's a precedent. Even if they say it isn't, and even if they say it will only be used this 1 time in this 1 case, it's a precedent. And that can work both ways.
It's a precedent. Even if they say it isn't, and even if they say it will only be used this 1 time in this 1 case, it's a precedent. And that can work both ways.
This clearly shows Bill Gate's political orientations.
The FBI needs to prevent people from hating the U.S. to start with. This country has more jails than universities. Start by investigating the government.
Isn't it funny that people not involved in the matter are always the one that know what's right to do?
Microsoft is glued-at-the-hip with the US Government….. exactly like Samsung is entrenched and entwined with the South Korean Government. It's no surprise that Bill is siding with the Federal Government.
Sure Gates, what about the Chinese government asking just for specific information? How hypocrite is it that the VS banned Huawei before from selling phones on the US market because of a build in backdoir? See: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29620442
but now Apple should cooperate?
Don't think so.
Godthanks Bill Gates doesn't on behalf of Microsoft.
See: http://europe.newsweek.com/google-m...back-apple-encryption-battle-fbi-428014?rm=eu
but now Apple should cooperate?
Don't think so.
Godthanks Bill Gates doesn't on behalf of Microsoft.
See: http://europe.newsweek.com/google-m...back-apple-encryption-battle-fbi-428014?rm=eu
Bill's experience with government consists of winning. Remember the big copyright infringement battle between MS and Apple? Gates signed copies of Win 95 on the steps of the Federal Courthouse. Remember Gates "saving" Apple with a loan and forcing Explorer at the default browser? Well intentioned guy (when it comes to him or his products).
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Microsoft has had a long history of cooperating with the NSA. I'm not surprised at all with this.
In a world where they "improve" their product by sending typing samples to Microsoft (a key logger essentially) and sample files for security with Windows Defender, I'm also not surprised that he thinks that they have access to the information already. Microsoft probably does have this level of information on all their customers at their fingertips.
Message decryption:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
Disk encryption key storage:
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28...r-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/
Installing updates with updates turned off:
http://www.informationweek.com/micr...ut-user-permission-apologizes/d/d-id/1059183?
Windows 95 backdoors and alerting the NSA to security issues before releasing fixes:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/blog...y-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again-3569376/
Honestly, with the default privacy settings on Win 10, I'm surprised that any business with trade secrets would trust Microsoft anymore.
In a world where they "improve" their product by sending typing samples to Microsoft (a key logger essentially) and sample files for security with Windows Defender, I'm also not surprised that he thinks that they have access to the information already. Microsoft probably does have this level of information on all their customers at their fingertips.
Message decryption:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
Disk encryption key storage:
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28...r-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/
Installing updates with updates turned off:
http://www.informationweek.com/micr...ut-user-permission-apologizes/d/d-id/1059183?
Windows 95 backdoors and alerting the NSA to security issues before releasing fixes:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/blog...y-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again-3569376/
Honestly, with the default privacy settings on Win 10, I'm surprised that any business with trade secrets would trust Microsoft anymore.
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