Gates / Microsoft apparently made a deal with NSA around 1995 to put a back door into Windows in exchange for avoiding breakup for being an illegal monopoly.
I am 100% free of Microsoft in my computing. Unfortunately, after Steve Jobs died, Apple became part of NSA's "PRISM" system, according to the Snowden documents.
John Young of cryptome.org calls the internet the greatest spying machine ever.
It's not only Gates who is concerned about deliberate releases of smallpox. I recommend Richard Preston's reporting about this problem. I posted an excerpt at www.peakchoice.org/smallpox.html
I'd like to see Gates billions taxed / expropriated to fund global public health and for vaccine manufacturing to be made by worker owned cooperatives. But that happy scenario seems unlikely especially given all of the anti-public health voices making the pandemic worse.