Seen my iPhone 5? Apple hires product security force
Wanted: experienced security professional. Must have plan to thwart Chinese counterfeiters, protect secret blueprints from spies and keep workers from leaving super-secret unreleased smartphones behind in bars.
A day after a recent report surfaced that an Apple employee had lost a prototype for a new but unreleased iPhone at a Northern California watering hole, two job listings appeared on Apple's website for managers of "new product security."
Such workers would join a team at the US$350 billion company that has included ex-FBI agents and other highly trained pros with backgrounds in intelligence and law enforcement. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=1… a private security force might not seem in keeping with its user-friendly image, Apple and other companies in its league need the best protection they can buy, corporate security experts say. And lost iPhones likely don't come near the top of the list of anxieties.
