Apple Accuses Worker of Leaks

booboothefoo writes "A former Apple Computer contract worker in Sacramento has been slapped with both civil and criminal charges for allegedly leaking Apple's trade secrets on the Internet." I think the real message here is "don't trust contractors." Or maybe "rumor sites are evil." Or maybe "Setec Astronomy."

Comments

Heh, Sneakers reference.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Setec Astronomy" = anagram("Too Many Secrets");

So?

[9Numbernine9]

Employee signs NDA. Employee breaks NDA. Employer gets mad. This is news?

Re:or maybe

[iocat]

Apple does not make it easy to forget. They are upfront, and in your face, constantly, about NDAs, and the consequences for breaking them. If Apple tells someone a secret, you can be damn sure that that someone KNOWS it's a trade secret.

As a contractor, you have to be an idiot to leak stuff: who'll hire you in the future, especially if you're a Macintosh specialist...

Apple Isn't so Bad

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a contractor for Volt, at Apple, in Sacramento, this guy did violate the NDA, and if you have ever worked here, thats a big big no-no, you don't leak confidential information, there are markers everywhere, he didn't do it on accident, and he should get in trouble for it, I can't comment on how big a fight they are putting against him, but he did mess up, and thats the consequences.

and to the guy talking about 'ripping off BSD code and selling it for Millions' Apple GIVES AWAY DARWIN under open source guidelines, and it works on PC's and on Mac's, they only 'sell' the Quartz interface (the one WE developed), quit bitching, they give it away, they aren't ripping it off, its a superior product, its free, they used it, this is what SHOULD be happening, Microsoft is a different story.

Re:Setec Astronomy

[Bonker]

What a great movie. It dealt with information security before most people understood what it was... and explained digitial encryption in way most people could understand.

Whistler: Cryptography systems are based on math problems so complex that they can't be solved without a key.

They also explained why being able to easily solve just one of those problems would render all encryption based on the same problem (Long factorials, anyone?) moot. We're coming up against this with Quantum technology. While it will provide encryption that can't be broken, all previous encryption will be pretty easily brute-forced with even a relatively weak quantum computer.

Re:Setec Astronomy

[mu_wtfo]

Setec Astronomy:
"cooty's rat semen"
"too many secrets"