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The Dirt on Apple Security (1989)

April 15, 2021

The early days of Apple’s culture of secrecy. If you had people digging through the garbage bins outside your corporate headquarters, you would be paranoid too!

Original text from Macworld Magazine, November 1989.

Introductory news clip from The Computer Chronicles with bonus crazy background saxophone for some reason.

Hugo Fiennes quote from the Computer History Museum’s iPhone development team panel discussion.

Steve Jobs’ “Super Secret Apple Rumours” podcast from the MWSF 2006 GargeBand demo.

Alleged insider comments on the damage Apple’s internal secrecy has done to Mac OS X at Michael Tsai’s blog, one of the few Macintosh news sources worth reading these days.