“Wanted: experienced security professional. Must have plan to thwart Chinese counterfeiters, protect secret blueprints from spies and keep workers from leaving super-secret unreleased smartphones behind in bars,” Marcus Wohlsen reports for The Associated Press.
“A day after a recent report surfaced that an Apple employee had lost a prototype for a new but unreleased iPhone at a Northern California watering hole, two job listings appeared on Apple’s website for managers of ‘new product security,'” Wohlsen reports. “Such workers would join a team at the $350 billion company that has included ex-FBI agents and other highly trained pros with backgrounds in intelligence and law enforcement.”
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Wohlsen reports, “While a private security force might not seem in keeping with its user-friendly image, Apple and other companies in its league need the best protection they can buy, corporate security experts say. And lost iPhones likely don’t come near the top of the list of anxieties. ‘Corporate espionage, that’s big money. Billion-dollar money. The paranoia is justified,’ said Jim Stickley, co-founder of corporate security consulting firm TraceSecurity ‘Whatever they’re trying to do, their competitors want to know. Everybody wants to know.'””
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]
…that Slugworth will stop at nothing!
Actually Slugsworth is the kind of guy you want. Remember, at the end, it turns out he was working for Wonker.
“If someone is going to come out with a new product that makes ours obsolete, then I want that company to be us.”
OK, its not exact but close enough. LOL
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Have they considered hiring Col. Quaritch from Avatar? He’ll bash a few skulls together to knock some sense into the employee.
“This low gravity’ll make you soft. And when you get soft, Pandora will eat you and shit you out dead with zero warning. I read your file, Corporal. Venezuela, that was some mean bush. Nothin’ like that here, though. You got some heart kid, showin’ up here.”
“Just figured it was just another hell hole”
Apple can continue to be user friendly without bring loser friendly, especially when the losers are employees who can’t hang on to prototypes.