Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo
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Maybe someone can leak the work they do to leave the world a better place because they have been real good at keeping that secret.
It's the most Star Trek like thing that has been achieved in the real world since the cell phone itself was invented. Google picked up the lower end slack and made these devices available in even some 2nd world countries, but Apple did pave a way.
I remember reading somewhere text steganography being used not to encode a hidden message but to identify recipients who might leak the text. One way is to introduce small mistakes or differences like "were were" but differently for each recipient. One might get "were were" and someone else might get "the the", a third one might get a superfluous comma, etc., even harmless differences which are not mistakes are possible. One possible difference corresponds to a bit of information. If you have one hundred possible differences, you have one hundred bit of identificating information.
But I am sure that it is possible to work around this. Just don't give the exact memo text to the public. Paraphrase the text. I am afraid copy-edit or some intentional changes won't be enough if you don't paraphrase the text.
Dangerous and prone to mistakes but surely lucrative or satisfying for the leaker.
Those people would probably do something like innocuously forward it to other departments. Reply to your version of the memo, but respond to the entire design and sales teams. Something like "What a great memo by Tim Cook!"
I could imagine that steganography is only one part of the puzzle who is the impostor.
Perhaps Apple has a secret departement dedicated to identify leakers. If they found someone they strongly suspect they lay out a trap, for example by only sending him confidential information.
And, if someone innocuously forwards a memo, they have the electronic paper trail of that.
Spionage, counter-spionage and counter-counter-spionage. Apple is waging a war.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048674
Also, I can’t seem to find a source for it but there’s also a technique used where screenshots have the logged in user’s ID encoded in the background of the screenshot by using hex colors that effectively look the same.
leak-AB-ly: AB test your emails to see who is leaking.
Secures 10m in funding, with a valuation of 10bn.
Can’t make this shit up.
But i hope Apple is clever enough to walk away from that feature for good.
All truths or falsehoods are within some context and cannot be divorced from context.
What does this have to do with "danger" or "evil"?
That seems like a trivial point to me, though.
As soon as somebody nosy is interested, then there is a purpose of deception.