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Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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"We’ll continue to measure our contributions in the lives we change, the connections we foster, and the work we do to leave the world a better place." Maybe someone can leak the work they do to leave the world a better place because they have been real good at keeping that secret.

It would be funny if you'd typed that on an Apple product, to connect with others.

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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It would be amazing if this latest memo had different wordings per group of people. They search would be narrowed and they would have truly made an effort to track these leaks.

That reminds me of all the espionage and counter-espionage that (at least used to) occurred in EVE clans/guilds (not sure if that's the right word). They even had custom plugins for their messaging boards where they could use BBCode to offer multiple words and the forum software would present a different combo of words so that if someone copy/pasted it then they could narrow it down either right away or with a few ex…

In Eve they’re called corporations/alliances, but it actually goes even deeper. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048674

Also, I can’t seem to find a source for it but there’s also a technique used where screenshots have the logged in user’s ID encoded in the background of the screenshot by using hex colors that effectively look the same.

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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It would be amazing if this latest memo had different wordings per group of people. They search would be narrowed and they would have truly made an effort to track these leaks.

This is something Elon Musk was rumored to have done, but ended up backfiring: https://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/05/not-at-all-quiet-on-the-...

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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It would be amazing if this latest memo had different wordings per group of people. They search would be narrowed and they would have truly made an effort to track these leaks.

I remember one lyrics website alternating normal and non-breaking space to prove a competitor was just copy pasting from their website

That competitor was Google, in case this is the incident you had in mind: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/genius-uses-morse-co...

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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post #9

"We’ll continue to measure our contributions in the lives we change, the connections we foster, and the work we do to leave the world a better place." Maybe someone can leak the work they do to leave the world a better place because they have been real good at keeping that secret.

It would be funny if you'd typed that on an Apple product, to connect with others.

The fact that you're re-enacting https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ aside, the comment was about the clause about making the world a better place, not the clause about fostering connections. (And even for that clause, if the extent of fostering is that they have a web browser based on Konqueror and a network stack based on BSD that lets you connect to Hacker News, it's not clear how much credit should be ascribed to Apple for it.)

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be funny if you'd typed that on an Apple product, to connect with others.

The fact that you're re-enacting https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ aside, the comment was about the clause about making the world a better place, not the clause about fostering connections. (And even for that clause, if the extent of fostering is that they have a web browser based on Konqueror and a network stack based on BSD that lets you connect to Hacker News, it's not clear how much credit should be ascribed to A…

yep

Re: Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

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post #2

It would be amazing if this latest memo had different wordings per group of people. They search would be narrowed and they would have truly made an effort to track these leaks.

This is something Elon Musk was rumored to have done, but ended up backfiring: https://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/05/not-at-all-quiet-on-the-...

Yeah, if you could just have VPs who know how things work, that would be great!
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