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This is absolutely as weird as the original title. These are CIA style measures.

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askafriend 5y ago
Do you think Coca Cola protects their formula with anything less? We're talking about Apple - a 2 trillion dollar operation that operates in hundreds of countries.
- spockz 5y ago
  While we are on this. How does Coca Cola protect their recipe? The products is “brewed” all over the world in many facilities. How do you keep that a secret when there are machines to configure and all this ingredient deliveries?
  - jaywalk 5y ago
    Compartmentalization. Company A produces mix containing ingredients 1, 3 and 5. Company B produces mix containing ingredients 2, 4 and 6. Only a handful of people at Coca-Cola even know the details of what companies A and B produce, and everyone below just knows "we combine the two mixes we receive"
    - vel0city 5y ago
      Also, good lawyers + good contracts. Its way more profitable for those companies to be quiet about what their mix is than risk the wrath of a $233B beverage company.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  The formula keeps changing over time. Pre 1906 it had cocaine in it. Here is the recipe. Extract of coca leaves, caffeine, plenty of sugar (it specifies 30 unidentified units thought to be pounds), lime juice, vanilla and caramel make a syrup. Into that syrup, the all-important 7x flavourings are added: alcohol and six oils – orange, lemon, nutmeg, coriander, neroli and cinnamon Knowing this won't help you beat coke. It might have 100 years ago but how coke tastes isn't as important as the leases they hold in key retail spaces.
bredren 5y ago
I don’t think so. At some Intel Jones Farm lab entrances where chip design was taking place back in 1997, there was buzz-in, camera over entrance door and badge check. That was on top of entry and exit bag search and badge check. Tech is more mobile and the stakes are much higher at Apple due to the speed of information transfer and action. So, nothing to see here. This site is just mad Apple is clamping down on their sources to create content and build advertising around.
least 5y ago
The Intelligence community wouldn't ever rely on something like strapping body cameras on to people to ensure they're not leaking information. There's a lot of processes involved to prevent untrustworthy people from ever entering inside a SCIF like your clearance (which is a long and expensive process), then specific onboarding for the sensitive area you're going to be entering, then restricted access to information pertinent to whatever your shop's mission is and also just simply restricting access to sensitive information to the confines of the SCIF. No cell phones. No thumb drives. No laptops. Extremely restricted means of moving sensitive data between locations. If Apple has information they consider to be highly sensitive, they actually should take "CIA style measures" and not this nonsense.

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Do you think Coca Cola protects their formula with anything less? We're talking about Apple - a 2 trillion dollar operation that operates in hundreds of countries.

spockz 5y ago
While we are on this. How does Coca Cola protect their recipe? The products is “brewed” all over the world in many facilities. How do you keep that a secret when there are machines to configure and all this ingredient deliveries?
- jaywalk 5y ago
  Compartmentalization. Company A produces mix containing ingredients 1, 3 and 5. Company B produces mix containing ingredients 2, 4 and 6. Only a handful of people at Coca-Cola even know the details of what companies A and B produce, and everyone below just knows "we combine the two mixes we receive"
  - vel0city 5y ago
    Also, good lawyers + good contracts. Its way more profitable for those companies to be quiet about what their mix is than risk the wrath of a $233B beverage company.
ipaddr 5y ago
The formula keeps changing over time. Pre 1906 it had cocaine in it. Here is the recipe. Extract of coca leaves, caffeine, plenty of sugar (it specifies 30 unidentified units thought to be pounds), lime juice, vanilla and caramel make a syrup. Into that syrup, the all-important 7x flavourings are added: alcohol and six oils – orange, lemon, nutmeg, coriander, neroli and cinnamon Knowing this won't help you beat coke. It might have 100 years ago but how coke tastes isn't as important as the leases they hold in key retail spaces.

bredren 5y ago

I don’t think so. At some Intel Jones Farm lab entrances where chip design was taking place back in 1997, there was buzz-in, camera over entrance door and badge check. That was on top of entry and exit bag search and badge check. Tech is more mobile and the stakes are much higher at Apple due to the speed of information transfer and action. So, nothing to see here. This site is just mad Apple is clamping down on their sources to create content and build advertising around.

least 5y ago

The Intelligence community wouldn't ever rely on something like strapping body cameras on to people to ensure they're not leaking information. There's a lot of processes involved to prevent untrustworthy people from ever entering inside a SCIF like your clearance (which is a long and expensive process), then specific onboarding for the sensitive area you're going to be entering, then restricted access to information pertinent to whatever your shop's mission is and also just simply restricting access to sensitive information to the confines of the SCIF. No cell phones. No thumb drives. No laptops. Extremely restricted means of moving sensitive data between locations. If Apple has information they consider to be highly sensitive, they actually should take "CIA style measures" and not this nonsense.