Apple Employees Blame Supply Chain for Product Leaks

Apple employees in the U.S.A. say that the company's global supply chain is responsible for all the product leaks of late, reports ArsTechnica.

In the view of these employees, the majority of leaks that now get splashed across the pages of the Apple Rumor Site Du Jour in the months before a new product launch don't originate within Apple corporate anymore. Instead, leaks about the iPhone 5, the Retina MacBook Pro, and the (expected) iPad mini came from somewhere within Apple's lengthy global supply chain.

"Apple's security practices are targeted at making sure US employees don't leak stuff, but everything comes out of China now," one employee told Ars. "I think Apple's secrecy mode is really outdated."


"Clearly, the people who need the security training are not here," said another. "They're not getting the same level of scrutiny as we are, and it shows."

"You've got thousands of people working on manufacturing something who have no vested interest in keeping it secret," one employee said, adding that he believes leaks will continue to increase as Apple ramps up overseas manufacturing operations. "It will be increasingly hard to hide the industrial design we do because we manufacture things overseas. Since we don't do it in the US, it's may be hard to surprise people over anything in the future."

You can read ArsTechnic's full look at Apple's secret garden at the link below...

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