Apple staff memo says it caught 29 leakers, including staff, contractors, and suppliers, in 2017, 12 arrested; memo implies possible legal action for leaks
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LEAKS Chris Mills / BGR : Leaked anti-leaking memo says Apple had 12 employees arrested last year for leaking Jean-Pierre Chigne / Tech Times : Apple Confirms Gold iPhone X In FCC Filing From September 2017 Sam Levin / The Guardian : Apple threatens leakers with criminal action in leaked memo - report Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat : Apple leak memo leaks, threatening employee termination and arrests Bryan Clark / The Next Web : Apple memo warns employees to stop leaking info. Someone leaked it. Steven Winkelman / Digital Trends : Leaked internal memo warns Apple employees about the dangers of leaking William Gayde / TechSpot : Apple tells employees to stop leaking information, in a leaked memo Mallory Locklear / Engadget : Leaked Apple memo reveals 12 people were arrested for leaking last year Chris Davies / SlashGear : Apple leak memo leaks with threats of firing and worse Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Apple warned its staff that it caught 29 leakers and 12 were arrested last year: leaked memo Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Analyst says Apple could double its dividend; leaked memo shows employee arrests Sean Hollister / CNET : Here's the leaked Apple memo about how leaks don't pay Kieren McCarthy / The Register : Apple leak: If you leak from Apple, we'll have you arrested, says Apple Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : Leaked Apple Memo Outlines Apple's Attempts to Stop Leaks Jefferson Graham / USA Today : Apple cracks down on leaks, 12 arrested in 2017 - report Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Leaked Apple memo: 12 employees were arrested last year for leaking secrets Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Leaked Memo Reveals Apple Is Cracking Down on Leaks, 12 People Got Arrested Silicon Valley Business Journal : In leaked memo, Apple says 12 workers were arrested last year for leaking information Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : A Leaked Apple Memo Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Internal Apple Memo Cites Continued Clamp Down on Leakers Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Apple ramping up effort to stop leaks with legal action, according to leaked memo Brent Dirks / AppAdvice.com : Apple Warns Employees Against Leaking Secrets, in a Leaked Memo Juli Clover / MacRumors : Leaked Apple Memo Warns Employees About Leaking Info to Media MacDailyNews : Apple warns employees about leaking secrets, says company caught and fired 29 leakers last year … Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica : Apple memo warning employees about leaking gets leaked Tweets: Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster : Great thread about leaks. Unfortunately, leaking reduces ability of execs to be transparent with teams. You have to write every staff email assuming it will be leaked. https://twitter.com/... @stevesi : 1/ “Apple warns employees to stop leaking information to media” /news/articles/2018-04-13/apple-warns- employees-to-stop-leaking-information- to-media // Leaks are not fun for the Co. Many might read and think how awful/overbearing. That's not really fair. Some thoughts... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : “Transparency” is such a positive buzzword in business yet companies maintain secrets. That's because companies can't really be transparent—companies are translucent. They have secrets because they have strategy. Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : I love it when the press leaks stuff from Apple. But this justification for publishing leaks is very, very weak tea http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/... Amir Efrati / @amir : And this notion that people who discuss company products will be arrested is preposterous. The arrests that Apple references, I'm willing to bet, are entirely related to the supply chain and theft of prototypes. Apple is lumping the two groups of people together for effect. Joshua Benton / @jbenton : People who are arrested and charged for stealing Apple trade secrets — not sued or penalized for breaking an NDA, ****arrested**** — would leave a paper trail and a trail of lawyers who would be happy to seek the spotlight to defend their clients in the media. Where are they? John Gruber / @gruber : The exception is the iOS 11 GM leak three days before the event. That went out to a bunch of hackers, not Gurman. But otherwise, exactly: how can this story *not* be about Gurman when he publishes such a high percentage of notable Apple leaks? Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Daring Fireball can't get its story straight. One second Grubster is complaining that Gurman doesn't get enough scoops. The next he's accusing him of covering up the fact that he's breaking all the news. Only thru-line in Gruber's writing is: what would Apple want me to think? Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Jackson, sorry to say yours is a naive take. There's little doubt Gruber likes to channel Apple PR https://twitter.com/... And my point is factual. Gruber has been maligning Gurman saying he's not getting scoops and now he's saying that Gurman has basically gotten all of them Wes Ostler / @wesostler : Makes me wonder why they invite Gurman to press events. Shouldn't Apple target him as an adversary? He digs for this kind of stuff, I've been contacted via DM and called by him digging for info before. I think it is wrong and it should stop. Alex B / @somospostpc : > It seems possible that every single specific example cited by Apple in this memo was someone leaking to Mark Gurman. Makes you wonder who had the balls to send this memo to him. https://twitter.com/... Olivia Messer / @oliviamesser : I'm frankly amazed that every company falls for this every time, looking worse when the threat is inevitably leaked http://twitter.com/... Christina Farr / @chrissyfarr : I've been told by internal employees more than once that once a reporter wrote about an issue they (the employee) cared about (because its good for users, not as much for bottom line), they finally got the resources to fix it. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : I totally understand why employees get freaked out about talking to press when we learn things like how Apple arrested 12 leakers. But it's important to remember workers always have the RIGHT to talk about working conditions (as @markgurman notes too) http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/... Yolo Ono / @db : 29 out of how many leaks? Catching 29/29 is impressive but 29/100 not so much. http://twitter.com/... Paul Haddad / @tapbot_paul : The leaked Apple leaks memo reads like the Starship Trooper propaganda clips. Would you like to know more? http://www.bloomberg.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : How bad does Tim Cook want to back door Mark Gurman's iPhone right now? http://twitter.com/... Joshua Benton / @jbenton : I am confused by this. Who are the 12 Apple employees/contractors who were *arrested* for leaking to the media for leaking to the press? Where are their indictments, the indignant statements from their lawyers? They're being charged with federal crimes? http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/... Jim Bob Breazeale / @jbbreazeale : When will companies learn that the memo telling employees not to leak is ALWAYS leaked? http://twitter.com/... Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Speaking of top headlinery, this is yeoman work: “In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information” http://www.bloomberg.com/... Amir Efrati / @amir : Every important Apple product, except Swift, was written about months or years in advance. Sure it annoys the marketers (the leaks memo was sent by a marketing exec) but Apple is doing just fine. It wins because of execution of the details, not ideas—which can & will be scooped. @dhh : Furthermore, I think Apple is vastly overestimating the value of secrecy and not acknowledging nearly enough of the costs. Apple is a black hole in many regards and would serve society better by engaging with it and opening up. Tentative signs of a thaw not withstanding. Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : $10 the person familiar actually wrote: “We're not ducking around.” http://twitter.com/... @dhh : The more power accrues to Big Tech over our lives, the more important for wider society that leakers keep leaking. Don't care as much about knowing next phone is iPhone X as, say, Boz drooling over Facebook's ends-justify-the-means memo. But happy to help former to ensure latter. https://twitter.com/... Amir Efrati / @amir : And if you think Apple's rivals don't already know what it's doing, at least in broad strokes, you'd be wrong. There are no more secrets. So whether the press scoops it or not shouldn't matter much in terms of competition: http://go.theinformation.com/ ... Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : Apple memo warns employees to never leak. Then employees leak memo. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : It's a shame that all these Apple leaks devastated the company by...*checks notes*...producing record sales and an all-time high stock price. http://www.bloomberg.com/... See also Mediagazer