BLOG: Bill Gates Sides With FBI Over Apple

(RTTNews) - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is supporting the FBI over its fight with Apple to get access over the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorist.

Technology companies must cooperate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations, Gates said, according to a Financial Times report.

"This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case," Gates said.

A federal judge had ordered Apple to provide software to FBI to help it unlock a phone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino, California, terror attack because investigators suspect the device may hold critical details of the plotting behind the mass murder.

Meanwhile, other Silicon Valley executives like Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Google Head Sundar Pichai had voiced their support for Apple CEO Tim Cook.