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Guess Who Is Backing the FBI Against Apple? Bill Gates.

Who else would you expect?

Last week, we saw a pattern in the stars, an alignment of the planets, and a blood moon of seismic proportions.

Apple and Google held hands and agreed on something.

It just so happened both CEOs — Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, respectively — concurred that the FBI was completely wrong in asking for the hacked iPhone information of the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.

And just when you thought the FBI had no friends in high places, here comes Bill Gates to the rescue because why not?

Thanks to Re/Code who climbed the Financial Times paywall, we find that Gates argues that the FBI is “not asking for some general thing, [it is] asking for a particular case.”