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Do you think the CC'd recipients actually email each other or participate in elite email chains like this? That'd be something else.

mikejb 8y ago
I'm not sure those email addresses are real. This seems more like a PR piece for the consulting company. But they so write each other from time to time, at least I remember something along those lines from the no-poaching emails that surfaced in a lawsuit about agreed salary caps (My memory might be corrupted here, I'm not sure about it)
- saagarjha 8y ago
  The address are not real, just like the email exchange. I think the consulting company is fake as well; the email format is just a stylistic choice to dress up the article in a different way.
saagarjha 8y ago
I'm sure they do. Not all of them at once, probably, but they do things like dine together: https://www.cultofmac.com/471423/tim-cook-spotted-dining-with-google-ceo/ https://www.cultofmac.com/471423/tim-cook-spotted-dining-wit...
regulate_asap 8y ago
You might be surprised, it is a matter of public record that they do just that. Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs, Sergei Brin, and others illegally conspired -- via email -- to avoid competing for labor, suppressing employee pay. It resulted in a (somewhat) successful class-action lawsuit against Google and Apple for their violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If you'd like to read some of the emails that the un-convicted criminals who operate these companies exchange: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/palm-ceo-rejected-jobs-anti-poaching-agreement-as-illegal-report-says/ https://www.wired.com/2009/08/palm-ceo-rejected-jobs-anti-po...
- skookumchuck 8y ago
  If anyone ought to be savvy enough to not trust crimes to the privacy of email, it ought to be those people.
  - regulate_asap 8y ago
    Yep, criminals often make foolish mistakes. It makes one wonder other crimes might turn up with a good discovery process. There might be enough for a Fox show: America's Dumbest Tech Executive Criminals.

mikejb 8y ago

I'm not sure those email addresses are real. This seems more like a PR piece for the consulting company. But they so write each other from time to time, at least I remember something along those lines from the no-poaching emails that surfaced in a lawsuit about agreed salary caps (My memory might be corrupted here, I'm not sure about it)

saagarjha 8y ago
The address are not real, just like the email exchange. I think the consulting company is fake as well; the email format is just a stylistic choice to dress up the article in a different way.

saagarjha 8y ago

I'm sure they do. Not all of them at once, probably, but they do things like dine together: https://www.cultofmac.com/471423/tim-cook-spotted-dining-with-google-ceo/ https://www.cultofmac.com/471423/tim-cook-spotted-dining-wit...

regulate_asap 8y ago

You might be surprised, it is a matter of public record that they do just that. Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs, Sergei Brin, and others illegally conspired -- via email -- to avoid competing for labor, suppressing employee pay. It resulted in a (somewhat) successful class-action lawsuit against Google and Apple for their violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If you'd like to read some of the emails that the un-convicted criminals who operate these companies exchange: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/palm-ceo-rejected-jobs-anti-poaching-agreement-as-illegal-report-says/ https://www.wired.com/2009/08/palm-ceo-rejected-jobs-anti-po...

skookumchuck 8y ago
If anyone ought to be savvy enough to not trust crimes to the privacy of email, it ought to be those people.
- regulate_asap 8y ago
  Yep, criminals often make foolish mistakes. It makes one wonder other crimes might turn up with a good discovery process. There might be enough for a Fox show: America's Dumbest Tech Executive Criminals.