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Gizmodo resident writer Jesus Diaz makes the single worst blog post I've seen about technology probably ever:
Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks [Apple]
Here's some highlights:

No, Tom never lived in Nazi Germany, nor in East Germany with the Stasi, nor in the Soviet Union with the NKVD, nor in Communist China and their secret police. He lives in the United States. For sure, he has never been scared of losing his life nor the ones he loves, like thousands of millions in those countries. But he knows how it feels to be watched, to always be considered guilty of crimes against another kind of state. He knew how it felt to have no privacy whatsoever when he was working right here, in a little Californian town called Cupertino, in a legendary place located in One Infinite Loop.

As Tom was describing all this, my mind was getting back to all I've read about Steve Jobs and Apple, back when he was El Capitán of the brave group of free pirates who created the Macintosh. The Mac was a secret project too, but there was no secret police making sure there were no leaks. After a hard day of work, all the Mac team sometimes played on the beaches of California, careless and happy, confident that this new revolutionary computer would change the world, one desktop at a time. All of them shared information, there were no seeeecrets, and that's why they came up with an 'insanely great' computer, as Steve Jobs himself used to refer to it.

And while I understand that secrecy is paramount to success in today's extremely competitive market—hello, dear marketdrones—now I look at this story on the Worldwide Loyalty Team, and it makes me realize how much Apple has changed. From a hippie happy company, to a company that does KGB-style lockdowns and Gestapo interrogations that end in suicides.

This is like everything wrong with "new media" boiled down into a single sensationalist golden turd of click-whoring. He actually accuses them of murder.

Labels: media, stupid