>This was a weirdly meandering, clickbaity article, because the only piece of news is that they found this building and talked to a few people inside of it. Th

>This was a weirdly meandering, clickbaity article, because the only piece of news is that they found this building and talked to a few people inside of it. The article very explicitly uses terminology to imply that the report is about an intelligence community black site. The article says this explicitly: > Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site,” as in a covert ops facility. It says it is widely referred to within Apple as a covert ops facility. (It doesn't say jokingly referred to that way.) In addition it uses the word back door in the second paragraph, which is really evocative. It says: >From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense given that people working in this satellite office—mostly employees of Apple contractors working on Apple Maps—use the back door. An editor who didn't want to evoke this would change it to secondary entrance, or simply, "don't use the main entrance". They wouldn't use the term back door. Bloomberg isn't some tabloid. For better or for worse, people are missing that the article calls this a "covert ops facility" (using those exact 3 words) similar to room "Room 641A" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Finally, the suggestion to walk several blocks before hailing a ride doesn't make sense in any normal employee context. The article is calling this an intelligence community site, says so very explicitly, and puts that term in the title. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site -- NOTE: I got mod approval to post this response, since I am doing so from a throwaway, but not to break the site guidelines.