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Here’s the memo:

>Last month, Apple caught and fired the employee responsible for leaking details from an internal, confidential meeting about Apple’s software roadmap. Hundreds of software engineers were in attendance, and thousands more within the organization received details of its proceedings. One person betrayed their trust.

>The employee who leaked the meeting to a reporter later told Apple investigators that he did it because he thought he wouldn’t be discovered. But people who leak -- whether they’re Apple employees, contractors or suppliers -- do get caught and they’re getting caught faster than ever.

>In many cases, leakers don’t set out to leak. Instead, people who work for Apple are often targeted by press, analysts and bloggers who befriend them on professional and social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and begin to pry for information. While it may seem flattering to be approached, it’s important to remember that you’re getting played. The success of these outsiders is measured by obtaining Apple’s secrets from you and making them public. A scoop about an unreleased Apple product can generate massive traffic for a publication and financially benefit the blogger or reporter who broke it. But the Apple employee who leaks has everything to lose.

>The impact of a leak goes far beyond the people who work on a project.

>Leaking Apple’s work undermines everyone at Apple and the years they’ve invested in creating Apple products. “Thousands of people work tirelessly for months to deliver each major software release,” says UIKit lead Josh Shaffer, whose team’s work was part of the iOS 11 leak last fall. “Seeing it leak is devastating for all of us.”

>The impact of a leak goes beyond the people who work on a particular project --- it’s felt throughout the company. Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of the current model; give rival companies more time to begin on a competitive response; and lead to fewer sales of that new product when it arrives. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” says Greg Joswiak of Product Marketing.

>Investments by Apple have had an enormous impact on the company’s ability to identify and catch leakers. Just before last September’s special event, an employee leaked a link to the gold master of iOS 11 to the press, again believing he wouldn’t be caught. The unreleased OS detailed soon-to-be-announced software and hardware including iPhone X. Within days, the leaker was identified through an internal investigation and fired. Global Security’s digital forensics also helped catch several employees who were feeding confidential details about new products including iPhone X, iPad Pro and AirPods to a blogger at 9to5Mac.

Last year Apple caught 29 leakers.

>Leakers in the supply chain are getting caught, too. Global Security has worked hand-in-hand with suppliers to prevent theft of Apple’s intellectual property as well as to identify individuals who try to exceed their access. They’ve also partnered with suppliers to identify vulnerabilities --- both physical and technological — and ensure their security levels meet or exceed Apple’s expectations. These programs have nearly eliminated the theft of prototypes and products from factories, caught leakers and prevented many others from leaking in the first place.

>Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested. Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple’s supply chain. These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere. “The potential criminal consequences of leaking are real,” says Tom Moyer of Global Security, “and that can become part of your personal and professional identity forever.”

>While they carry serious consequences, leaks are completely avoidable. They are the result of a decision by someone who may not have considered the impact of their actions. “Everyone comes to Apple to do the best work of their lives --- work that matters and contributes to what all 135,000 people in this company are doing together,” says Joswiak. “The best way to honor those contributions is by not leaking.”

This reddit posting meme has gone to fucking far I can't read your shitty wall of text because you fags have outlawed paragraph separation.

>>898094 (OP)

>In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information

Hmmm, i wonder who leaked this memo?

>>898096

The future we deserved.

>>898096

but paragraph seperation causes text to look like this

reddit spacing is a real problem, it looks like shit when the paragraphs are small and you are looking at the post in a higher resolution monitor

>>898108

They aren't short in that text.

>>898096

>>898110

How about you fucking Reddit millennials stop the 1-paragraph-per-sentence bullshit meme? No, that's not structure. No, a literature or philosophy teacher can't read an essay written like that without thinking you're a total fucking idiot.

But paragraphs are fine you total dickheads. And blank lines are the standard way of separating paragraphs just like one space is the standard way of separating sentences (hold it there, double space hipsters, just because it's 1% more legible on your 1965 typewriter font doesn't mean you're right). There's no reason not to use blank lines unless you're sentimentally fragile enough to get yelled at by 12-year-old autists who think they're better because they didn't need to go to Reddit to catch its cancer.

>>898131

Actually the standard way to add a paragraph separation is to put a indent.

like this

>>898155

get a better web browser

>>898148

Enjoy having literally all websites replace your tabs with faggot spaces or removing them altogether, wintoddler.

>>898131

muh-lennials

That's Gen-Z posters bro. Millenials are Gen-Y and are borderline-thirty.

>>898096

>>898110

>"reddit spacing"

You people are so dumb you don't even recognize markdown formatting. You call it "reddit spacing". Have you people ever written a programming project in your lives? Have you ever used GitHub or Bitbucket?

Lusers complaining about "reddit spacing" should be permabanned.

>>898148

>>898131

>The standard

A standard*.

¶ People should start using the ¶ character, but only for input, when rendered it'd be invisible, rendering the new paragraph however the user wishes. Much like hard tabs and the fact that users can configure their margins.

¶ Maybe it auto capitalizes the word, auto indents it, auto inserts a newline if there isn't one or two before it. Whatever preferences you set.

¶ Or maybe we could just not be as autistic about it. This shit isn't worth reading anyway, properly formatted or otherwise.

In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information

>Apple Inc. warned employees to stop leaking internal information on future plans and raised the specter of potential legal action and criminal charges, one of the most-aggressive moves by the world’s largest technology company to control information about its activities.

>The Cupertino, California-based company said in a lengthy memo posted to its internal blog that it "caught 29 leakers," last year and noted that 12 of those were arrested. "These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere," Apple added. The company declined to comment on Friday.

>Apple outlined situations in which information was leaked to the media, including a meeting earlier this year where Apple’s software engineering head Craig Federighi told employees that some planned iPhone software features would be delayed. Apple also cited a yet-to-be-released software package that revealed details about the unreleased iPhone X and new Apple Watch.

>Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of current models, give rivals more time to begin on a competitive response, and lead to fewer sales when the new product launches, according to the memo. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” Greg Joswiak, an Apple product marketing executive, said in the memo.

>The crackdown is part of broader and long-running attempts by Silicon Valley technology companies to track and limit what information their employees share publicly. Firms like Google and Facebook Inc. are pretty open with staff about their plans, but keep close tabs on their outside communications and sometime fire people when they find leaks.

>Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg last week talked about her disappointment with leakers. In 2016, Google fired an employee after the person shared internal posts criticizing an executive. The employee filed a lawsuit claiming their speech was protected under California law.

>In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler. "The overall broad definition of confidential information makes it so employees don’t say anything, even about issues they’re allowed to talk about," he said. "That’s problematic."

>Apple is notoriously secretive about its product development. In 2012, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook pledged to double down on keeping the company’s work under wraps. Despite that, the media has continued to report news on the firm to satisfy demand for information on a company that’s become a crucial part of investment portfolios, many of which support public retirement funds for teachers and other essential workers.

>In 2017, Apple held a confidential meeting with employees in another bid to stop leaks. Since then, publications, including Bloomberg News, published details about the iPhone X, a new Apple TV video-streaming box, a new Apple Watch with LTE, the company’s upcoming augmented-reality headset, new iPad models, software enhancements, and details about the upcoming iPhones and AirPods headphones.

>Here’s the memo:

<Last month, Apple caught and fired the employee responsible for leaking details from an internal, confidential meeting about Apple’s software roadmap. Hundreds of software engineers were in attendance, and thousands more within the organization received details of its proceedings. One person betrayed their trust.

<The employee who leaked the meeting to a reporter later told Apple investigators that he did it because he thought he wouldn’t be discovered. But people who leak -- whether they’re Apple employees, contractors or suppliers -- do get caught and they’re getting caught faster than ever.

<In many cases, leakers don’t set out to leak. Instead, people who work for Apple are often targeted by press, analysts and bloggers who befriend them on professional and social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and begin to pry for information. While it may seem flattering to be approached, it’s important to remember that you’re getting played. The success of these outsiders is measured by obtaining Apple’s secrets from you and making them public. A scoop about an unreleased Apple product can generate massive traffic for a publication and financially benefit the blogger or reporter who broke it. But the Apple employee who leaks has everything to lose.

<The impact of a leak goes far beyond the people who work on a project.

<Leaking Apple’s work undermines everyone at Apple and the years they’ve invested in creating Apple products. “Thousands of people work tirelessly for months to deliver each major software release,” says UIKit lead Josh Shaffer, whose team’s work was part of the iOS 11 leak last fall. “Seeing it leak is devastating for all of us.”

<The impact of a leak goes beyond the people who work on a particular project --- it’s felt throughout the company. Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of the current model; give rival companies more time to begin on a competitive response; and lead to fewer sales of that new product when it arrives. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” says Greg Joswiak of Product Marketing.

<Investments by Apple have had an enormous impact on the company’s ability to identify and catch leakers. Just before last September’s special event, an employee leaked a link to the gold master of iOS 11 to the press, again believing he wouldn’t be caught. The unreleased OS detailed soon-to-be-announced software and hardware including iPhone X. Within days, the leaker was identified through an internal investigation and fired. Global Security’s digital forensics also helped catch several employees who were feeding confidential details about new products including iPhone X, iPad Pro and AirPods to a blogger at 9to5Mac.

<Last year Apple caught 29 leakers.

<Leakers in the supply chain are getting caught, too. Global Security has worked hand-in-hand with suppliers to prevent theft of Apple’s intellectual property as well as to identify individuals who try to exceed their access. They’ve also partnered with suppliers to identify vulnerabilities --- both physical and technological — and ensure their security levels meet or exceed Apple’s expectations. These programs have nearly eliminated the theft of prototypes and products from factories, caught leakers and prevented many others from leaking in the first place.

<Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested. Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple’s supply chain. These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere. “The potential criminal consequences of leaking are real,” says Tom Moyer of Global Security, “and that can become part of your personal and professional identity forever.”

<While they carry serious consequences, leaks are completely avoidable. They are the result of a decision by someone who may not have considered the impact of their actions. “Everyone comes to Apple to do the best work of their lives --- work that matters and contributes to what all 135,000 people in this company are doing together,” says Joswiak. “The best way to honor those contributions is by not leaking.”

>--- With assistance by Mark Bergen, and Sarah Frier

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/apple-warns-employees-to-stop-leaking-information-to-media

https://archive.fo/BdUsv

>>898414

>In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arreste

how many chinks has apple personally caused the execution of?

>>898148

The fuck you talking about? You leave a blank line, then on the line after that, you add indent. Every language teacher I know would get pissy whenever someone didn't.

>>898413 and >>898414 are way more readable than the wall of text in the OP.

>>898381

Technically a paragraph should both be double-spaced and tabbed.

Like so.

>"srsly guise don't leak memos liek this one"

>memo is leaked anyways

lol @ the absolute madman

>>898378

>markdown

>on an imageboard

>>>/leddit/

>>898096

Good, now fuck off.

>>898094 (OP)

Kek, maybe employees are leaking and maybe Intel is spying on Apple.

>>898413

Thank you.

>>898378

>Have you ever used GitHub

>even recognize markdown formatting

supporting either of these should result in permabans

>>898094 (OP)

They probably leak this shit over their corporate email, or Facebook.

Retarded niggers get what retarded niggers deserve.

>>899152

There also exists the possibility that they leaked this stuff either through an Apple product, like one of their laptops, or while carrying around one of Apple's listening devices in their pockets (the phones). The probability that their computers are monitored is pretty decent, especially if they used the ones given to them by the company, like a lot of people do.

Again, the ones who get caught are usually the low hanging fruit, i.e. retarded. I've personally removed that monitoring software from corporate computers in the past, it's something that anyone with half a brain would do before using said machine to extremely leak valuable intel.

>>899157

Are you allowed to install a different OS on your company laptop?

Do they install hardware level rootkits on those machines?

>>898096

> listening to shitposts

leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

>>898094 (OP)

>banning leaking will surely stop leaking from happening

>>898378

I also dislike the stupid reddit shit that gets overused, but I also dislike retards spacing every sentence.

>>899160

>Do they install hardware level rootkits on those machines?

Apple assigns new engineers to fake products for a year or two before they let them work on anything that's actually real. It's not a big stretch to imagine that they'd spy on people too. It's probably all in the thousand page agreement you sign when you get a job there.

>>898096

I can read just fine on my 16:10 monitor.

Maybe you should just lay down your smartphone and use an actual computer.

>>898096

Here you go you retarded nigger: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/line-height

How to inject/modify CSS into/of a website is left as an exercise to the reader.

>even the memo lecture about not leaking shit is leaked

>mfw some anon at apple is intentionally leaking info just for the lulz