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Well, duh? And nobody out of the thousands engineers would be tempted to break it, if they could get away with it?

That's my point, really. FAANG employs a ridiculous number of SW folks for outliers to be quite expected. As a reminder, we had Snowden in NSA who at that time was estimated to have a headcount of 20k or so.

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> As a reminder, we had Snowden in NSA who at that time was estimated to have a headcount of 20k or so.

Snowden's revelations are infinitely more important to the public interest than some recommendation algorithms, as evidenced by the fact that he had to leave the country and seek permanent political asylum. He didn't do it for fun.

Maybe there’s just nothing interesting or dark about them no matter how badly people want there to be for controversy sake.

That or all the employees who work on the core algorithm are sworn to secrecy in a blood rite cabal with embedded cranial explosive traps if they ever speak or write anything outside of corporate SCIF’s.

Severance packages with claw back clauses that enforce the NDA. Break the NDA and risk paying back the severance plus legal costs. Isn't worth the risk.

Leaves the question of how would they identify a person. I know that information in Apple is quite compartmentalized, but it's an outlier in the FAANG. Surely someone would be a fool to spill the beans just after they've left, but after a sufficiently long period...

Thanks for the reminder, and yeah, duhhhhhh. People actually enjoy keeping their livelihoods. Duh right back atcha.

If you're looking for a whistleblower, how about Frances Haugen?

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