The record of the briefing on the fight against leakage, conducted for Apple employees by representatives of the company's security services, became public. It became known from her that the corporation, in fact, operates its own "special service", which involves veterans of real - that is, state - special services.

The briefing that took place in June was called "Stop Leaks - Keep Privacy in Apple". As reported by Cnews, the company created within its own "special services", inviting to work specialists from real special state agencies, including the National Security Agency, the FBI and the US Secret Service, as well as military.

The briefing presentation was conducted under the guidance of David Rice, the global security director of the company, Lee Friedman, the global director of investigations, and Jenny Hubbert, an employee of the training and communications unit in the global security department.

According to this presentation, Apple has attracted experts in internal investigations, whose main task is to prevent leakage of information about new developments of the company. This information should not fall either to competitors, to the press or bloggers, or to the black market.

Increased secrecy - an integral part of Apple from the very moment that Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1997.

"Unexpectedness and admiration, when we present the world with a new development, information about which has not leaked out. This has an incredible impact, and in an extremely positive way. This is our gene pool. This is our brand. But when leaks occur, the impact is even greater. This is a direct blow to us all, "- said Jenny Hubbert.

To prevent leaks, our own infrastructure was created, and a team of competent specialists.

According to Hubbert, the division for worldwide protection of commercial secrets is now an important part of the entire Apple supply chain.

Most of the problems with the leakage from Apple in the recent past accounted for the factories in China, where the components for the company's devices are manufactured. Employees carried out perimeter components - in the first place, housing. So, for example, in 2012. Journalists in the hands of the hulls have not yet emerged iPhone 5.

However, journalists are just one aspect of the problem. Industrial spies working for Apple competitors literally "grazed" employees of factories that make spare parts for the company's devices, gluing the whole neighborhood with leaflets with promises of good money for successful removals. Given that the average salary of an employee on the Apple production line is $ 350 per month (excluding surcharges), those who want to earn extra money.

At a certain stage, a group of female workers managed to take out about eight thousand cases, hiding them in their bras. Separate spare parts were taken out in shoes, thrown over the fence, let down to the toilet - in order to remove them from the sewer.

Stolen spare parts are often transported to Huaqiangbei, one of the largest electronics markets in the world, located in Shenzhen in southern China. This market employs about half a million people, and its turnover reaches $ 20 billion per year.

In 2013 year. Apple was forced to buy 19,000 stolen cases of the smartphone iPhone 5c, by the time not yet announced, and then another 11,000 cases after the announcement, but before the sales began.

"We bought them with the maximum possible speed to protect them from all bloggers in the world," Rice said..

The following year, after taking office - in 2012. - Apple's new CEO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) announced that security should be "doubled". After this, Rice's team began a consistent fight against leakage at factories, and this had good consequences.

"In 2014, we have stolen 387 corps.

In 2015, 57 cases were stolen, 50 of which "leaked" on the day of the announcement, which was especially painful. But in 2016 the company produced 65 million cases, and only four of them were stolen. It turns out, the share of losses was one to 16 million, unheard of for the industry results, "boasted Rice.

Now more problems are caused by campuses of Apple in the territory of the USA. For example, last year two employees were caught in the company, who actively merged information to bloggers - not out of malicious intent, but solely out of gossip.