Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How Your Next Phone Will Get Leaked”.
We’Ve seen it time and time again, there’s a big upcoming tech release, but before the product officially drops leaks, galore start popping up online, giving away specifications pricing and even what the gadget is supposed to look like. But how does this happen so much, especially with high profile items like graphics cards and smartphones? The manufacturers obviously sign employees, vendors and reviewers to non-disclosure agreements and have money to spend to keep upcoming products under wraps. So what gives a lot of the answer comes down to just how many people have to do their part in keeping a product secret? Sometimes it’s just an employee of the manufacturer itself. Being careless, infamously an apple employee left an iphone 4 in a bar before it was released and before apple could do anything about it. Tear downs of the device were all over the internet.
More recently, google’s pixel 3 xl was left in the back of a lift prior to its release, with tech blogs being all too happy to repost the images of the phone that the driver sent them. But even if no employees are being careless, tech firms rarely produce everything in-house. Instead, they rely on outside manufacturers and suppliers to assemble the finished product, meaning it only takes one person on an assembly line somewhere to leak a new gadget. Indeed, some have been caught in the past, trying to sell yet to be released products on the black market. On top of this, it isn’t just the factory making the new phone or tablet or whatever that the manufacturer has to worry about many high profile. Electronics have many accessories made for them by other companies who are given designs for the upcoming product to work off of, for example, the news about the iphone 7, not having a headphone jack first broke because of a leak out of a factory that made phone cases And people noticed there was no cutout for a wired pair of headphones to go in then you have folks who are careless with product information that aren’t even part of the supply chain. Typically, you see this with technology. Reporters and reviewers who agree to embargo dates, meaning they’re, contractually obligated not to release any information before an agreed-upon date and time.
However, sometimes embargoes are broken because someone wants to get a scoop or simply by accident. So, with all these potential security holes can companies do anything about leaks other than firing any employees responsible or ending relationships with tech reviewers who violate embargoes. One good example of a major leak prevention program can be found, unsurprisingly at apple, which operates a worldwide loyalty team. These are undercover employees embedded in certain product groups to monitor the flow of information, and it might have been this program that caught 29 apple leakers in 2017. We’Re still for would-be leakers is that 12 of those people were arrested as stealing trade secrets and intruding. Upon a network are crimes, so people that leak on purpose for notoriety or a payday could be looking at consequences more dire than just losing their job. But there’s one question we haven’t yet answered: why do companies care so much about stopping leaks in the first place? Well, part of it is that companies like to cash in on all the hype produced around official launch events and having an unauthorized link, could temper excitement and ultimately, sales. If everyone already knows what’s coming, manufacturers also fear product leaks could give their competition a leg up by letting them know what an upcoming product or even a prototype, will be like and giving them time to respond with an offering of their own.
However, there’s also been speculation over the years that some leaks have actually been intentional exercises and height building by the companies themselves. So it might end up being pretty hard to figure out how and why a specific leak happens so remember, take everything with a grain of salt and wait for official specifications and official reviews before plunking down your hard earned cash thanks a drop for sponsoring this video Check out the drop pc38x gaming headset made in collaboration with sennheiser, the openback design is based on the respected pc37x, but with added enhancements, retuned drivers deliver a higher fidelity and better frequency response. Plus impedance is now just 28 ohms. If you’re using a gaming, controller or other low power devices, you get a new knit mesh headband for less heat retention and better comfort, as well as two sets of cables and two different ear pads knit mesh and velour buy.
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