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Some Apple Employees Say Company's Culture of Secrecy Makes Working From Home Challenging
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Who? An employee being fired or Apple trade secrets being leaked?
Apple's strict security guidelines sounds like good job security for those who are good at what they do. Sounds like a non-issue. if they'd rather im sure another tech company would love to snatch an Apple insider for their business.
Working from home with a security clearance is easy... working from home on classified information isn't happening.
Yes... its called VPN into the internal network and RDP into a VM for Windows, X into a VM for Linux, VNC into a VM for macOS.
I called my insurance company yesterday for quotes on two new vehicles I’m considering to purchase within the next month, and as I was talking to the representative, she mentioned that all of their client work was migrated to their home, where they don’t even have to travel to the office until further notice. I asked her is that the case for all the representatives and she said “Yes“, there’s actually no one specifically at their headquarters aside from some supervisors/communication technicians for network repairs.
It’s strange really, but this is the ‘norm’ moving forward, which will probably be like this for longer than most anticipate.
Newsflash, millions of American jobs have been sent to other countries because it is that easy to work from home for alot of people.
Ok.
What exactly is going on with their automotive team? What’s the product there? Are they going to be licensing a self-driving OS to car companies or what?
Tell me more about the AR/VR plans.
Does the inclusion of tof cameras & wigig in the 2020 iPad Pro & higher tier iPhones mean that they will be able to interact with/control those products?
Obviously these questions are rhetorical.
Merely illustrating the fact that there are MANY real secrets that competitors would give nearly anything to find out.
Us seeing sneak shots of products like a month or two before release, though typical & inevitable... honestly gives no other company an advantage.
These are NOT the type of “leaks” that expose Apple financially.
I'm aware of all of those things, and far more, including the fact that "screen sharing" isn't a protocol, but rather an Apple term for RFB (a pretty lousy protocol if we're being honest), known by most as VNC, with RDP being the Microsoft version (has security issues and is over-complex, but a far better performer, and far more features). Granting full unrestricted access to an internal computer from an external network is more risky than granting access to specific resources.
I deal with network security for a living (among countless other roles). Granting remote access to work computers is convenient and makes my life much easier (and I do do it when it makes sense), but when there are security concerns, it is definitely more risky than granting access only to what the user needs access to remotely, on a tightly-secured device. I usually deploy tight GPOs to such laptops to ensure strict compliance, and no funny business. Full disk encryption is also a good idea, and I deploy it when I can as well.
Look, working on cross-platform frameworks may be easy to do from home but working on major new features that require device interaction is a lot more difficult as they would have to allow every employee to carry a/multiple DEVELOPMENT-fused iOS device(s). These are not devices that you EVER want to get out into the wild and I presume these devices are kept on-campus only.
Running any custom code on an iOS device that is RELEASE-fused requires the OS build to be signed. All signing is done internally. Everything else would be a huge security risk.
Running any custom code on an iOS device that is RELEASE-fused requires the OS build to be signed. All signing is done internally. Everything else would be a huge security risk.
No kidding.
Shrink the size of the office and push off a lot of the IT costs onto the worker.
Back when I worked for one of the major software companies I left the company but they rehired me as a telecommuter. They sent me a boatload of gear and I told by boss I have a ton of gear I don't need any of this. I was told that the legal department said I had to use their gear so they own all the work I do, if I use my own gear then I could claim ownership of code I wrote. Seems dumb but is is a lot of legal mumbo jumbo.
I work for one of the top 15 Fortune 500 companies.
Projects and products that I have worked on shall not see daylight until 2 years into the future at the minimum. Yet, I can work from home. So, not sure how Apple is any different.
more importantly this will help many companies weed out and isolate micro-managers and the stress as well as toxic nature of that management. People are not slaves and these senseless metrics governing that micro-management practices takes away from a cohesive working environment from being collaborative.
developers can have content directly on their machines and upload to a server or work within a virtualized environment on a server so that content cannot be copied or downloaded to a non corporate owned workstation.
I completely agree that for so many employees working from home is an efficiency band-aid solution. Personally I’ve never had that enjoyment no matter where I worked since at my level supporting employees accounts, software, and remote connection issues it’s always been to go go for me; never complained either just got my work done period.
let’s hope Apple does very well in this arena without the products/services leaks
PS: this message has been brought to you from a former employee scathed by a micro-manager of evil proportions (non Apple employee), lol.
Yeah, would really like a super bullet proof iOS and Mac OS this time around.
And the problem is probably not the company itself, but the board members and shareholders who keep demanding for ridiculous growth and profit. As a publicly traded company, Apple has the obligation to satisfy them, unfortunately.
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I'm going to guess that certain procedures are not properly in place since we never experience something like this before. It's just the nature of many silicon Valley companies where sometimes people are working on different projects and the structure is fairly flat. The confusion is not out of the ordinary.
"...thousands of employees home amid the coronavirus crisis has been messy,..."
covid19 has been messy to everyone
get out of here covid19
covid19 has been messy to everyone
get out of here covid19
