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It sounds like the point of this "briefing" - replete with polished videos featuring a who's who of executives hammering the point home - is to threaten corpora
by ghughes 9y ago
It sounds like the point of this "briefing" - replete with polished videos featuring a who's who of executives hammering the point home - is to threaten corporate employees not to leak. Apple isn't hosting these meetings to satisfy anyone's curiosity; it's to make an implicit threat that if you leak, you'll eventually be caught by talented people whose full-time job is to catch you using the experience they gained at various three-letter agencies.
> “But there’s a whole slew of folks that can be tempted because what happens if I offer you, say, three months’ salary?’ In some cases we’ve seen up to a year’s worth of salary being rewarded for stealing product out of the factory.” Apple workers on the production line make approximately $350 a month, not including overtime, according to a 2016 report from China Labor Watch.
Duh. If you give valuable intelligence to workers who are paid a pittance, that info is inevitably going to find its way into the hands of people who are willing to pay a pretty penny for it. Good luck to anyone who hopes to address that without altering the economics of the situation.
- Ajedi32 9y agoThey _did_ address it though: > “In 2014 we had 387 enclosures stolen,” he says. “In 2015 we had 57 enclosures stolen, 50 of which were stolen on the night of announce, which was so painful.” In 2016, Rice says the company produced 65 million housings, and only four were stolen. “So it's about a one in 16 million loss ratio, which is unheard of in the industry.”
- tinus_hn 9y agoApple products are not made by 'Apple workers' in an 'Apple factory'. Apple products, like Logitech products, Microsoft products and just about any electronics available, are made by workers in enormous generic factories like Foxconn.