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Internal Investigation on Fake Apple Email
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October It was mean't to be June at WWDC but apple had to put it back to make sure the iPhone launched on time.
Fixed. I have a memo from Apple's internal email about it. I broke the story first!
"Breaking News: Apple to stop production of 10.5 and just ship with Windows Vista."
EXCLUSIVE.
They are bloggers, not journalists. Different things y'know, bloggers are not confined to any sort of ethics.
Aloha everyone,
Here's yet another spin on this story. I was listening to the "This Week in Tech" or TWiT podcast, and their take is that the fake memo was INTENTIONALLY released, internally, by Apple to expose a leaker. Apparently, Apple is just a bit peeved when information leaks out, and it is the impression of Leo Laporte that Apple wanted to catch the leaker in the act. To that end, Apple apparently sent out the erroneous information, and will use the external email trail, if any, to determine the identity of the leaker, who will then become an ex-Apple employee.
That sound much more plausible than someone out to spike the stock price, but that's just me
HawaiiMacAddict
Here's yet another spin on this story. I was listening to the "This Week in Tech" or TWiT podcast, and their take is that the fake memo was INTENTIONALLY released, internally, by Apple to expose a leaker. Apparently, Apple is just a bit peeved when information leaks out, and it is the impression of Leo Laporte that Apple wanted to catch the leaker in the act. To that end, Apple apparently sent out the erroneous information, and will use the external email trail, if any, to determine the identity of the leaker, who will then become an ex-Apple employee.
That sound much more plausible than someone out to spike the stock price, but that's just me
HawaiiMacAddict
I don't consider good journalism to be that which decides what to print. As long as they print the truth, that's what matters.
For 2 hours, they believed they had the truth.
what they did was proper. They reported what apple employees received. The apple employees believed it was real.
Engadget simply reported what was happening as they found it.
I wish all news organizations reported that way. Then we would have a permanent record of events, not interpretations.
so now journalism is supposed to protect the stock market? not bloody likely.
I want an unbiased scientific record of everything that happens, and that's what I see happened. A second-by-second ticker of these events would be ideal
now it's exposed that emails were fraudulently sent out from apple's mail servers.
Nonsense. The leak came from Steve himself. He gets his kicks from reading the reactions on rumor sites, and from launching internal investigations.
Lets say there are some people with lots of money who lost significant amounts because of this stunt, and one of them might take him to court, which won't end up with anything less than bankruptcy until the end of his or her life.
Apart from that, if you receive an internal e-mail that contains very bad news about your company, and you want the world to know, what do you do? A) Call your friends at a rumor site, or B) call your collegues working in PR to make sure they send the news to that rumor site as well? (B) is the option that doesn't get you fired.
Who really cares that much? Talk about stuff that is being blown out of proportion. And how would an "internal investigation" launched towards Engadget be internal?
And maybe the person who forgot to terminate the ex-employee account, may also become an ex-employee.
it is not yet clear if the email came from the Internet or if the email was generated from inside the Apple internal network. We need more details.
If the email came from the inside of the network, then at least one of the following occured:
1) Miss configuration of the email server accepted external traffic as internal
2) Internal user has ability to spoof their identity, so as being able to send email as other user.
3) remote login into internal network due to failure to terminate account
4) Plain good old hack.
Conspiracy theory:
Perhaps Apple created the fake email themselves to try and sniff out the source of leaks from within their company?!
Perhaps Apple created the fake email themselves to try and sniff out the source of leaks from within their company?!
Conspiracy theory:
Perhaps Apple created the fake email themselves to try and sniff out the source of leaks from within their company?!
Considering that Apple has to have a confidentiality agreement with all of its employees, it would seem that if this was a ploy to flush out a leaker, then that "leaker" is about to be sued or fired. The crux of the matter is not whether or not it was a real internal email or not -- the crux is who at Apple intentionally leaked this information to Engadget and... why? For money? For the hell of it? To see what would happen to his stock options? Dumb move.