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Meanwhile the CEO uses a windows machine with outlook.

• maddyboo 5y ago
  Source?
• mrweasel 5y ago
  What? Tim Cook use Windows?
  • extrememacaroni 5y ago
    BIG if true :O
• joshgachnang 5y ago
  I'd love a source on that.
  • vxNsr 5y ago
    The guy who wrote the book about the making of the iphone sent a bunch of emails to tim cook with tracking enabled and each time it was opened by a windows device. other comments in this thread have more links the story.
    • hulitu 5y ago
      Seems a very good idea from a security POV. You get an email and your favourite Email program will be more than happy to open the link and execute the code. And because this is the CEO of Apple, you presume that he is using MacOSX and send him an Apple executable. Which will not run on a windows machine. Now, ransomware on the other way ...
• homarp 5y ago
  origin of the rumor: https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-... (or if you only want the Tim Cook part: https://news.softpedia.com/news/apple-s-ceo-tim-cook-probably-isn-t-using-windows-to-read-his-emails-518943.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/apple-s-ceo-tim-cook-probabl... )
• echelon 5y ago
  Source, though it seems dubious: https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/12/12/apples-ceo-tim-cook-using-windows-read-emails-probably-not/ https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/12/12/apples-ceo-tim-cook... Also: https://www.pcworld.com/article/439674/oops-tim-cook-tweets-photo-of-mac-production-line-running-windows.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/439674/oops-tim-cook-tweets-... (2014)
• diebeforei485 5y ago
  His public email address is handled by staff.