Bill Gates on Apple’s Fight with FBI to Unlock iPhone

ROSE: “Last night I asked Gates to expand on the security versus privacy fight on my PBS program.”
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ROSE: “Are you in favor of a private company in this circumstance, Apple, in their — secrets in their own lab and their being able to destroy whatever they create after they do this for the government one time only, should they do that?”
GATES: “Well, in every case up until now when the government’s come in and said what’s the banking information? You know, banks like to keep their customers’ information private. But no bank has ever divide the government and I think Apple at the end, they are just forcing a complete judicial process. I don’t think any inform — Apple is saying that when the court, you know, say goes to the Supreme Court, I don’t think they’re saying they’ll defy the government. They’re just forcing —” [crosstalk]
ROSE: “No, they’re not. But they’re saying that right now they’re not going to do it. So it will be appealed to the an appeals — [indecipherable] court and the Supreme Court. I’m just asking you, what would you do if you were the executive? Would you do the same thing that Tim Cook has done?”
GATES: “I think they’re saying, hey, as a society we think this discussion of safeguards is important. I don’t disagree with that. I think, at the end of the day —” 
ROSE: “But nobody disagrees with that.”
GATES: “At the end of the day we want a government that has visibility and we trust it to use that visibility on our behalf.”
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ROSE: “Max Levchin, who you and I both know and admire, said that Apple should  — this is what I’m trying to get you to say one side or the other, Apple should offer the FBI the exact data but they should not offer them a master key.”
GATES: “Yeah, that would solve this — this particular case.”
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