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El Reg reports:
Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.
"In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested", says the terror missive from Cupertino, ironically leaked to Bloomberg. "Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple's supply chain."
It then threatens long-lasting harm to anyone stupid enough to let anyone know anything about its products before, you know, it launches them and tries to sell as many as humanely possible.
"These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere", the letter rants.
[...] "Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes."
What a lovely company.
Unless you're the FCC.
(Score: 5, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 14 2018, @09:05PM (1 child)
Back in the day the nuPrometheus Group mailed Apple's Color Quickdraw source code to I think 30 people.
Apple got the FBI to investigate, which eventually led to an agent showing up at John Perry Barlow's doorstep. Perhaps you've heard of Mr. Barlow.
Barlow wrote an article about how curious and fascinated that Federal Man was about computers. Before investigating Barlow the agent was completely unfamiliar with all that newfangled stuff.
That the FBI helped Apple out led me to ask the FBI to find my stolen MacBook Pro. It had the source code to a product I was developing. I wasn't concerned about the cost of a replacement or the loss of the source because I had a backup. I was really worried that a larger better-funded competitor might buy my source from the thief.
So I visited the Portland FBI office and asked for their help.
They had Agent Tom speak with me. Agent Tom is one of the FBI's Cybercrime specialists.
And he didn't have a clue.
When I made that plainly apparent to him he got furiously angry then demanded I leave. I offered a friendly handshake but he refused.
Get This:
The thief gave me my MacBook Pro back.
I watched him email postmaster@apple.com to find out how to reset my Apple ID's password, but that's all he did. A few days later I got an email from his "housemate":
"My housemate found your computer on the MAX," - Portland's light rail - "would you like it back?"
"Yes."
Silence, then a few days later:
"Were you on CNN?"
"Yes," they wanted my take on that embedded systems consultant who burned down his own house then crashed his fully-fueled airplane into the Austin IRS building. They also wanted to know what IRS Section 1706 was all about.
"Meet me at this certain cafe that's very very far away from you".
Nice cafe, I thought. I figured I'd buy the thief a latte for being such a great guy.
"Are you michael crawford?"
"Yes."
"Here's your computer."
Then he fled in terror.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:36PM
We all do mate ;)