>>Charlie Rose asked Bill Gates about this on his show tonight.
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>>Bill Gates used the analogy of the bank whose promises to keep its account information confidential but is asked by the government to give it information that might help convict a suspect.
>>It has no choice but to give the information. Otherwise, there would be chaos.
>>At some point, like it or not, Gates said, you have to accept the fact that you need a government that protects you.
>>Apple, Gates said, has no choice but to give the FBI what it asks for. The only question is when and under what circumstances, not whether it will give it.
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>Except it's not that they're being asked for info about one account. They're being asked for the master key to all the vaults and all the safe deposit boxes in all their banks.
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>Tamar

I wouldn't trust the FBI (or the rest of the federal government for that matter) with a skeleton key like that. Keep in mind these are the idiots who reset the password to begin with. If they were not so incompetent to begin with then they wouldn't need the key - and considering the incompetence they've demonstrated in this case, why would you trust them?