Apple has a top secret team made up of former FBI and former secret service so that leaked confidential information will not be leaked

MicrosoftObtain a patent for identifying the source of leak informationAs we are doing, for companies that do product development, we want to prevent anything that unpublished information leaks. Apple has also been fighting information leaks of new products for many years, what on earth is going on? We announced at some briefing that invited some media.

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Writer'sWilliam TurtonMr. Attendance was briefed by Apple's security experts "Stopping Leakers - Keeping Confidential at Apple" (to prevent information leakers - keep sensitive information to Apple). Among them, clarified by the person in charge, in order to prevent information leakage by the hand of media and competitors, secretlyUS National Security Agency(NSA), FBI, secret service, American military and other former employees.

Apple's secretive principle is known for steve jobs attracting technology bloggers in 2004 and trying to reveal their sources, but Tim Cook, then CEO of the company, also said " Does Apple's secretiveism become lighter under you? "To the question that" the secret about the product is more securely protected "AnsweringSo from 2017 you can see that it is passed through.

ByCaden Crawford

According to a presentation done at the briefing, in cooperation with global security, Apple has a team called "new product security" in order to keep secret items within the company. Mr. David Rice, one of the teams, was former NSA staff and had experience working as a cryptographer expert at the US military and Apple has worked for 6 years on the global security team so far. Also, Mr. Lee Freedman has served as a computer crime chief at the Federal District Public Prosecutors Office, and since 2011 he has been involved in a worldwide survey conducted by Apple. The new product security centered on these two people has focused mainly on information leakage from the supply chain.

Starting with the leak of iPhone 5 that happened in 2012, the fact that information leaks of Apple products occurred mainly in factories in China. However, by strengthening crackdown on factories in China, it seems that the ratio of information leakage from the headquarters in California is rather increased now.

Apple's efforts to prevent information leaks from the factory of China says is Rice said was like a "non-stop trench line". In the world top level of theme park we are also of the physical examination 223 million times every year for the visitors, but the number of inspections for the people in and out of the Apple factory and 221 million times, only comparable to that Because it is a number.

Salaries of people working at Apple's factory are about 350 dollars a month (about 39,000 yen) without overtime. 99.9% of the staff are good people, who work seriously to support their families or start up with money they saved, but in the temptation from the black market that "salaries for three months can be obtained at once" Some people try to lose information by losing it. The department concerning the casing and case of the terminal is particularly susceptible to damage. It is because the person who works is easy to understand "what kind of terminal is released" in the case. There are various ways to steal parts of a terminal, such as hiding in a bathroom, bringing it to a foot, throwing it from a fence, etc. There seems to have been nearly 8000 attempts to steal a part by hiding it in a brassiere .


And the stolen part finally comes to Shenzhen City, Shenzhen, China, the world's best electric car city "Huaqiang North Road".

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In 2013, when iPhone 5c was announced, Rice said that Apple had to buy 19,000 terminal parts before the announcement from Huaqiang North Road, and 11,000 pieces of terminals before shipment, Rice said. "We need to buy back as soon as possible so that bloggers around the world do not get it," Rice said.

After declaring Cook CEO to strengthen product confidentiality in 2012, the security team has steadily increased the results of anti-theft measures. In 2014 there were 387 parts to be stolen, 57 in 2015, and even though 65 million cases were made in 2016, only 4 cases were stolen . This means that the probability of theft has decreased to 1 in 16 million.

As stated above, theft in the factory in China declined dramatically, then Apple's security team focused its efforts on the headquarters in the United States.

There are teams that manage secret programs in order to keep employees secret, but when the secret leaks to the outside still, Apple has asked, "What happened?" "Who is responsible?" The investigation will be done. The survey is thorough and it is said that tracking may be done for three years to catch information leaky people. Freedman says that there is no spirit of losers such as "any information leaked", "only information was written on the blog, and patience".

In 2016 he said he caught two people, employees who worked for several years at Apple 's online store, and staff who had been involved in iTunes for six years, with an information leak. They called on journalists on Twitter and gave information to reporters they knew from a long time ago. Even those who leaked information, everyone just started to work, "I love Apple, I wonder what I am working in a cool place, I want to improve the product even more", and also from the work attitude It is very difficult to tell whether it is a leaky person or not.

Besides, in the past, after a bad review was written, a person who leaked secrets in a refutation saying "This is not always happening!" And a work that I accomplished as "what do you think I did it?" There are people who leak out too much secret to get excited, and it is difficult that information leakage does not always occur due to malice. In the first place, the reason why the security team of Rice and others was created is that some developers have forgotten the prototype of iPhone 4 in the city bar. The unforgettable iPhone 4 goes to Gizmodo's hands, and leak information flows on the website. Steve Jobs said he told Gizmodo personally to contact the editor to return the iPhone.

Still, "big BrotherThere is no culture in Apple, "Rice said, denying anything such as hiding officials' mails, sitting behind on the bus and asking about the situation. Meanwhile, Apple is telling employees to make a borderline between private life and work, and one of the officials said, "I do not tell my family and teenagers what they are doing at work I'm breaking my bones so that I can "Apple officials are as if they are working at the CIAAnd that.

ByVal.pearl

Of course, not all contents of the company are considered confidential matters, but to talk about contents like "my boss is fucking," "salary is how much," "I do illegal things at a company" It is being done. What is prohibited is mainly concerning unpublished product / service etc. Even so, in fear of accidentally leaking the secret to the outside, many of Apple's new employees will delete their own SNS account, even Jonathan Zdziarski, a proven security researcher, will work on Apple and work on Twitter We set it as keyed.

Information such as "Apple Watch's band is released" and "iPad's screen grows bigger" seems insignificant, but Cook CEO believes that these leaked information directly damages Apple He said that iPhone sales are being influenced by "an early and frequent report on unpublished iPhones". Therefore, Apple is putting more effort into information leakage of new products, and Snapchat and Facebook are also responding sensitively to leak information in recent years in the form of Apple.