Well, Apple undoubtedly knows who lost the phone, so his current career isn't any more ruined than it would otherwise have been. They bricked it wirelessly so i

Well, Apple undoubtedly knows who lost the phone, so his current career isn't any more ruined than it would otherwise have been. They bricked it wirelessly so it's clear they knew what happened very quickly. My guess is he received whatever disciplinary action they were going to mete out a long time ago. One reason his name is worth publishing: to verify that this isn't a hoax, and there've been tons of hoax iPhone leaks. This all allegedly happened sometime around April first. When you say "an Apple engineer lost a phone" it's a lot less convincing than "an Apple Engineer named X" because the latter can be positively verified. In fact it sounds like people here know him (or of him at least).