Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?
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It doesn’t even make much sense. Unless they’re hoping to catch body camera evidence of an employee using a phone to snap a picture of a prototype, what sort of leak would this possibly prevent? And really, would it be that hard to “accidentally” obscure the body camera for the 5 seconds it takes to snap such a photo anyway?
It certainly won’t stop you from calling, texting, or meeting a journalist in your free time to leak whatever information you want.
There’s probably much less to the story than this sensationalist headline suggests.
it may as well be in the areas of "no portable electronic devices".
About rationality of the Apple's security - we're talking about people caught bribing Santa Clara sheriff ...
Maybe the camera is a decoy and really, they just want to know who is around the computer at the time of the leak (location/gps/wifi/etc).
I mean, people had freaking launch parties for Windows 95.
Now I'm actively trying to work out ways not to install windows 11.
It was a unique condition that one person was both the greatest tech marketer and greatest tech product manager of all time.
Also one of the greatest assholes of all time. You can't do him justice if you leave that achievement out.
I think iPhone 4 had the greatest differential impact, on its release the IPS Retina was something unreal.
Apple doesn't need to be cool anymore. they just need to keep selling a crapload of phones every year and app store downloads, which they seem to have no problem doing. Neither Google nor Microsoft are cool yet are still hugely successful with surging share prices.
Right. What number are they on now, anyway?
The only leaks they have yet to stop is the hardware related ones.
Great example was during WWDC almost no software changes were leaked before hand.
New iPhone models are largely predictable and incremental. However, Apple is involved in a number of other markets -- some of which essentially don't exist yet.
Good lord! Both at the same time? That's outrageous. This bloke doesn't seem to have heard of the Unix philosopy - do just one thing and do it well.
Second, even if true, it's impossible to judge this without knowing who "some" employees are. I would expect that highly paid Apple engineers aren't all going to be wearing them all day at the office -- that would make hiring a bit difficult...
But if there are certain restricted-access design rooms that they require you to wear one while inside? Or a policy for third-party contractors where Apple doesn't have control over the premises and can't install security cameras? I dunno, but I can imagine a few scenarios where this might not be obviously unreasonable.
And following from that, they know who gets to be fired.
You could try to have potential leaker’s wear them and have them on 24/7 for a period of time… and they could simply text/write/message/email outside the view of the camera and the capability of the mic. Not to mention they are going to need to let people use the facilities or have other personal moments with the camera off, so the purpose is defeated.
A guard could wear one and it would help with surveillance but it doesn’t need to be a body cam, just a regular surveillance camera.
It seems a lot more useful in the normal sense, where, e.g., campus guards would be required to wear and use them so that when there are disputes about what happened in a particular incident, the footage can clarify.
I tweeted the ad here https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1127394371433840655?s=20. Interestingly, Steve was fired from Apple exactly next year.
Note, when I read this, the current title was: "Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks"
In reality:
* It's a few groups who handle hardware, it's not like the entire engineering team is forced to walk around with body cameras or face execution.
* "Police Grade" means nothing - it's an alarming phrased used for no reason.
* "In response to leaks" while fine, makes light of the situation - in reality its concerning hardware designs of one of the most complex hardware operation in the world.
We're talking about Apple - a 2 trillion dollar operation that operates in hundreds of countries.
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Knowing this won't help you beat coke. It might have 100 years ago but how coke tastes isn't as important as the leases they hold in key retail spaces.
If Apple has information they consider to be highly sensitive, they actually should take "CIA style measures" and not this nonsense.
At some Intel Jones Farm lab entrances where chip design was taking place back in 1997, there was buzz-in, camera over entrance door and badge check.
That was on top of entry and exit bag search and badge check.
Tech is more mobile and the stakes are much higher at Apple due to the speed of information transfer and action.
So, nothing to see here.
This site is just mad Apple is clamping down on their sources to create content and build advertising around.
> EXCLUSIVE:
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[1] https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/what-happened-to-my-mac-app...
https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple-lawyers-leakers-380606...
Also, don't all their leaks happen from their Chinese suppliers anyways?
The concept of police body cams is that there's a discrete event at a specific time that they want to investigate, for example an arrest. You cannot do that with leaks. If the iPhone Next leaks, just what are they going to do? Scan through every minute of body cam footage over months? And look for what?
No, I don't think so...
Will we have to fight for a law that says we will not be retaliated against if we don't want to wear body cams at work?