MacCentral bericht dat Apple een rechtszaak heeft geopend tegen de personen die verantwoordelijk waren voor het lekken van geheime informatie over de nieuwe produkten die Apple een aantal weken geleden op de MacWorld aankondigde. De betrokken personen zijn mogelijk werknemers van Apple. Zoals je weet kan ome Steve nogal pissig worden wanneer zijn zorgvuldig bewaarde geheimen in de openbaarheid worden gebracht:
Sources indicate that the person or persons named in the suit are possibly employees of Apple and/or Apple's trusted third-party developers -- individuals who had access to Apple's trade secrets.
[...] Apple's suit indicates that the defendant disseminated Apple's trade secrets "alone or in concert" with other people began distributing information in or around February of this year. Apple says that images of its recently introduced multiprocessor G4 systems and the new optical Pro Mouse were distributed by the defendant or defendants. The company also says that the defendants may have posted information about other products, as well. [break] In een ander artikel schrijft News.com dat Yahoo van de rechter bevel heeft gekregen om alle gegevens over te dragen van een Geocities user die op zijn account informatie over de nieuwe Apple muis en dual G4 PowerMacs had gepubliceerd:[/break] Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gregory H. Ward yesterday signed an order allowing Apple to subpoena all records related to a GeoCities member known as "worker bee." The member allegedly posted information on Apple's new mouse and dual-processor PowerMacs before their introduction at last month's Macworld trade show in New York. The subpoena has been served on Yahoo, sources said.
[...] In a declaration to the court, Apple senior corporate security investigator Robin Zonic said the information "worker bee" posted to various chat forums and to Geocities Web pages were Apple trade secrets made available only to people who were parties to nondisclosure agreements.
[...] "The postings by 'worker bee' demonstrate a continuing pattern of trade secret violations that have caused irreparable harm to Apple," Zonic said in the filing. "Through its internal investigations, Apple has been unable to determine the identity of 'worker bee.'"
