“‘You may want to know about their Worldwide Loyalty Team,’ Tom told me recently in an email. I read what he had to say,” Diaz reports. “It felt like a description of the Gestapo, without the torture and killing part.”
Diaz reports, “Of course, if Tom had never sent any sensitive information to media outlets, he would have never had the fear of being caught, only to get fired and sued into oblivion by Apple Legal. But the lack of any privacy whatsoever is something that he shared with all his fellow employees.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Diaz shovels quite the load of horse manure in his full article; even going so far as to seemingly blame Apple for a Foxconn worker’s suicide. The fact is: Apple’s secrecy is a valuable commodity and employees who threaten to, or actually do, cost the company money for no good reason whatsoever should be fired. That said, any Apple who wants to anonymously send us a photo, specs list, etc. regarding the oft-rumored tablet or any other top secret product, please feel free to do so at your convenience. 
Re: MDN’s Take: Screw that! Apple should just release the damn tablet to fill my holiday stocking!!!!
secrecy?
…you meant to say “at your own risk” right?
Hogannnnnnn!
Ha, my MDN Magic Word Captcha was british – gestapo… ironic…
“It felt like a description of the Gestapo, without the torture and killing part.”…
Sounds like…. nah.. fergit it.
Ein Apple, Ein Mac, Ein Jobs.
Just add a link to the roughlydrafted.com and call it an MDN take.
Ok, fine, here it is:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/12/15/gizmodos-incredibly-naive-jesus-diaz-compares-apples-corporate-security-to-nazi-gestapo/
MDN’s magic word is usually based on the story. It is not ironic or coincidental when that word can be used in your input to the story.
However, it still does amaze some of us how many have not noticed this fact. It must be because finding an “ironic coincidence” is more fun than acknowledging something for what it is.
@X
Eins Apple, Ein Mac, Ein Jobs, Ein Slip, Kein Job!
“without the torture and killing part.without the torture and killing part”
And what about the guy who lost an iPhone and ended dead in China??
This story is an absolute load of crap. I worked for Apple for seven years, through last year, and I can without any question assert that this is a completely made up pile of sh*t.
Worldwide Loyalty Team – Rules OK !
Scumbags and no ethic parasites deserve to be crushed and shat on.
Where Apple’s privacy policies get weird is when the Loyalty Team Managers declare
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I agree with the Special Forces and lockdowns. If anything gets leaked it would be catastrophic for Apple. The employees are aware that they are watching everything that they do and agreed to it so I don’t see why they would dare leak information in the first place.
MDN: Are you encouraging Apple employees to break their confidentiality agreement? Anything is ok if it serves your selfish interest, right?
byronic,
Hence the wink.
krquet provided the link. Mods, please change the article to point to RoughlyDrafted’s response (including that photoshopped picture), rather than the flamebait original.
I actually believe this to be at least somewhat true. How else does apple keep their secrets so well. Every company has people who leak things, I’m pretty sure apple must be doing something like this to keep everyone quiet.
Has anyone else noticed that the crappiest posts on MDN always come from someone who signs a common name (Mark, Peter, Kevin, Michael, etc.)
Weiiiird……
Seems our CIA, and to a certain extent, FBI need to take a course on secrecy @Apple.
I actually believe this to be at least somewhat true. How else does apple keep their secrets so well.
The story is bullshit. Speaking as a former Apple employee, I can tell you that the reason we took confidentiality very seriously is because most of us were shareholders, and we understood what it’s worth to the company. Apple got the freaking cover of Time magazine when the G4 iMac came out, because it was news.
If you could buy the cover of Time as an ad placement (you can’t), it would easily be worth tens of millions of dollars.
-jcr
Human rights apply.. No matter the importance of what you are protecting! Otherwise the next commercial might take place behind an entrance with the wording on top: Mac Macht Frei
You people are killing me with all the the Nazi-themed jokes!
What’s next, a Macintosh salute? The Mac hoards marching East, crushing all before them with their Birkenstocks.
I was going to launch into a sarcastic politically correct “Nazis are people, too” thing, but figured the humorless literalists around here wouldn’t get it.
iPhone Macht Frei
has a better cadence.
Sieg Mac! Sieg Mac! Sieg Mac!
@iphone
aside John C’s posts, which I always read I tend to ignore non-registered commentors ’cause life’s too short to stop and try to make sense of what they’re saying. It’s usually spooge anyway.
R2 is a good case in point; some days his delivery is timely and topical but mostly it’s tourettes, shouts of random bs.
No wonder Aperture 1.0 was such poo, they weren’t allowed to bring any cameras onto the apple campus while developing it.
…what horeshit.