Apple Secretly Had a 'Double Agent' in the iPhone Leaker Community

[diego.caraballo]

Secret conversations only happens in Signal/Telegram ?

"At the end of the email chain, an Apple employee asked if Shhumeyko was free for a chat.
"What’s the number you use for Signal/Telegram? We will assign a member of the team to reach out," the employee wrote."

 

[BuffaloTF]

Agent 00

 

[jcooper17]

"I just wanted to be heard for once, and the story I tell to be truthful,"

But also you didn't pay me... so now I am mad.

 

[antiprotest]

Apple is one thing, but this sounds like no one should trust Shumeyko for anything. Selling out everybody left and right, before and after.

 

[bpeeps]

Not a fan of this shady, back-alley maneuvering. Customers expect better from Apple.

Customers don't even care about this, only Apple geeks on tech forums do.

 

[macduke]

Sold out the little guys for nothing, how shameful

Hopefully this is a lesson to all the other leakers: If you snitch, you get NOTHING. Don't do it. We need rumors, lol.

 

[MacBird]

Pretty sneaky on Apple's part if the story is true.

 

[400]

Surprised people might be surprised. Industrial espionage is not a new thing.

 

[mr_jomo]

It’s got to be Rene Ritchie

That is quite possible the best post on macrumors to date ?

 

[Kkspire]

So he wanted money for reporting leakers, as they were conducting illegal activity, including himself? Ugh, no. You don’t get paid for not participating in illegal activity and reporting fraud.

 

[Phogro]

Kind of misleading title, but interesting if true.

 

[bobcomer]

Is this really a surprise?

It's kind of a surprise that Apple didn't ay him. (at least to me!)

 

[macaddict06]

he hoped he would be able to redeem himself for being a former participant in the iPhone leaks community

aka, Apple threatened to bury his ass in litigation and then used him to rat other people out

 

[pdaholic]

Snitches get stitches.

 

[Analog Kid]

Former IP thief rats out community then cries he isn’t getting paid for it. This guy’s a winner for sure.

 

[now i see it]

Yet with all the Cloak & Dagger intrigue, the FruitCompany continues to post record profits year after year after decade.
Leaks only bruise egos.

 

[rafark]

It's amazing to see what extend Apple will go to protect it's products from being leaked! I would love to see their budget for "security"...

Apple didn’t even pay him!!! That’s the reason this article exists. Dude asked Apple several times to pay him but they didn’t care.

 

[macintoshmac]

Tim Cook got no chill. He has had enough of the leakers. For one, Apple does not have a lot to share lately, and even the little they do gets out already thanks to these leakers. It is an issue, yes.

 

[Khedron]

Apple has money for this anti-consumer garbage but apparently none for proper quality control for the App Store or AirPods or MacBook hinges or keyboards or …

Thanks Tim.

 

[Analog Kid]

Pretty sneaky on Apple's part if the story is true.

As far as I can tell, it wasn’t motivated by Apple, but this guy trying to ”redeem” himself with a payday.

If this was Apple’s doing, there’d be compensation involved.

Apple has money for this anti-consumer garbage but apparently none for proper quality control for the App Store or AirPods or MacBook hinges or keyboards or …

Thanks Tim.

Protip: read before ranting. This guy specifically says he’s going public because Apple didn’t have money for this garbage.

But to your larger point that Apple should let their IP leak freely until they ship billions of units defect free: ??‍♂️

 

[Busdrver]

You just can’t make stuff like this up ?

 

[I7guy]

Cloak and dagger…interesting.

 

[jgbr]

It’s got to be Rene Ritchie

too obvious as Rene is the ultimate fan boy, blinded by obsessional love of Apple. On the other hand maybe it’s a cover.

This spy business is complicated….?

 

[emmab2006]

This is Unacceptable behaviour by a Company as big as Apple.

 

[TheDauterive]

I used to say Apple reminded me of Scientology with their secrecy.

Still does.

Both terribly paranoid and neither has anything of value worth keeping secret. Well Apple used to.

What are you talking about?! If it weren't for those pesky leakers, Apple would completely surprise us with...annual spec bump updates to all their already existing products.
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Phil Schiller: "Can't innovate anymore, my ass!"