Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks During the development of iOS 15, Apple reportedly limited the extent to which engineers could see features being worked on by other colleagues to prevent potential leaks. As spotted by 9to5Mac, each new feature introduced with the beta version of iOS 15 is accompanied with a unique flag associated with a "disclosure …
... though it also sounds like an awesome idea for a cartoon.
Act one: villains invade only a small area of the globe.
Act two: everyone's like "Oh, that's just Ted's zone, who cares about Ted anyway?"
Act three: everyone remembers that they value and respect Ted, and turn up to help him save the day.
Worldwide Loyalty Team, Ho! Go go Worldwide Loyalty Team! This is Nancy from Worldwide Loyalty Team, if you guys don't stop messing around then your time is going to run out!
That metadata is automatically added by Youtube when you upload a video by tagging related terms that comes from Google's search engine. It added "M1X" because of the speculation about the bigger SoC that will be used in upcoming Macs rumors say will be announced soon.
Well,
In the dark and distant past I worked for The Post Office and BT (or British Telecommunications part of the Post Office) as it was temporarily known.
They had internal police and if you were suspected you were guilty. No reproach, no appeal, just sacked.
I did nothing wrong and was never investigated.
But I know of good people who were investigated and wrongly relieved of their job.
Yes that was the 80's and employment law was different.
Strangely I met up with an Post Office 'investigator' later in life, despite having an MBE he is exactly what I remember and despise of the people of that time.
More like a thick shroud of paranoia.
Apple operates in its own world, and thank $Deity that there are employment tribunals to set it straight every now and then, because otherwise it would forget that there is actually a Real World (TM) out there.
Except for Marketing. They know.
Control freaks gotta control. Walled garden? Control. No right to repair? Control. ARM architecture? Control. Worldwide Disloyalty Police? Control.
At the moment they have my business because at the moment they have better customer privacy than the alternative, and I value privacy very highly. But you are right, I wouldn't want to work there either.
This isn’t something unique to Apple or IT. I’ve worked for many companies where secrecy and confidentiality was essential to business success, where millions of $$ rested on competitors not knowing certain details. Conversely, other areas of the same companies were keen to share ideas as they allowed far more resources to be pooled to make the whole industry better (mainly in safety and environmental areas - though not exclusively as a lot of efficiency ideas were openly shared as well).
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