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Apple Sues Former Employee for Leaking iPhone's Journal App and More
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No wonder Apple is really failing lately, they don't even know their own priorities. They're too busy suing former Apple employees, and it's not even important. Journal app? Why not fix macOS Sonoma and iOS instead, you know, prioritize your own customers?
Is this legit? If some dude is traveling across a continent to meet with some lady... journalist or not, something tells me it's more than just corporate secrets that he's leaking. 🤔
I wonder if he might have gotten away with it if he just got an old, cheap Pixel. Considering he was using a work phone, you think he'd have realized this was the one time an iPhone wasn't going to protect his privacy. 🤪
Mark Gurman’s leaks come directly from Apple management as part of their marketing campaign.
Encryption gives you security when a message travels from point A to point B. When your device is compromised (ie a work phone) you have zero security because they can see everything you're doing before or after the encryption. Apple could also capture the traffic going to the phone display since that's not encrypted. Apple makes the chips, the OS, the devices, and develops their own in house security software which will go beyond your third party security apps. If you want to better understand with Apple security can do read the Rivos lawsuit where the employee thought he was being sneaky by encrypting all the docs and trying to get it off this computer using the cloud and airdrop.
Out of all the Apple products he chose to leak info on - the Journal App was the one?
what he did have any intel on the Notes or weather apps?
what he did have any intel on the Notes or weather apps?
I don't understand why these kinds of people have the persistent need to just leak corporate privileged information like this? There are so much more downsides than upsides when you take part in espionage that is as low risk like this. It makes no sense to me.
Not only is your career ruined, but no one will trust you ever again.
Not only is your career ruined, but no one will trust you ever again.
Suing for only $25,000? Is that correct?
They'll pay quarduple that for their lawyer.
Surely Tim has that much in between his couch pillows!
They'll pay quarduple that for their lawyer.
Surely Tim has that much in between his couch pillows!
Not if the contract contained illegal provisions. You can't be held to any part of a contract that requires you to break the law or not to testify in legal proceedings about another party's illegal activities.
I find it interesting that Apple uses secret backdoor methods to take screenshots on company-managed devices, when those of us managing those same devices don't have the luxury.
Managed to gob smack my forensics team when I told them that the user would have to opt-in to grab screen captures using a program like FTK.
Managed to gob smack my forensics team when I told them that the user would have to opt-in to grab screen captures using a program like FTK.
His real penalty is significantly more than $25K. A record of this lawsuit will come up in every future job background check. His leaking will even come up on a Google search now. No company will want to hire someone who leaks their confidential info. The real financial penalty is the lifetime earnings for a Stanford software engineer which I can assure you is in the multi millions not $25K. I'm sure he will eventually find employment at some lower tier company willing to overlook the lawsuit but it comes at a discounted compensation. The company would expect a discount for taking the risk on hiring "damaged goods."
Yep -- but let's face it. Apple's definition of dealing with it internally involved stripping him of all his stock options and any other bonuses or pay they could legally take back. He probably wasn't getting paid enough to leak this stuff to make that a non-issue for him.
I would actually say his working contract requires professional secrecy. It's likely that he gets NDA-bound only if he's on certain projects where the MNPI (Material Non-Puiblic Information) drives that requirement.
Breach of contract is contractual/civil law, depending on the basis of the legal system in the jurisdiction under which the contract is issued and signed. No cops, no guns
I'm thinking of a number. It's the number of messages of this nature where if I were management I'd decide this employee gets fired. Maybe it's one, maybe it's two or three.
Now I'm thinking of another number. It's the number where just being fired isn't enough, and as a manager, I feel the employee needs to be sued, and maybe…
Wait. 10,000 messages. To just one reporter?
Yeah, I'm not gonna bother coming up wth a number now. I'm not sure what number it would've been, but that's at least one too many zeros. Probably two too many.
If that number is true, of course.
Now I'm thinking of another number. It's the number where just being fired isn't enough, and as a manager, I feel the employee needs to be sued, and maybe…
Wait. 10,000 messages. To just one reporter?
Yeah, I'm not gonna bother coming up wth a number now. I'm not sure what number it would've been, but that's at least one too many zeros. Probably two too many.
If that number is true, of course.
Hilarious that this guy leaked features he didn't like as a way to kill them. How does that even work?
Also, $25,000 seems rather low.
Also, $25,000 seems rather low.