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Outlining the lengths Apple will go to to protect its secrets and discover leaks, Kahney chronicled developments in the infamous Asteroid case, in which Apple tried to sue two web sites to discover the source of leaked secrets about a forthcoming hardware product. That product has yet to be delivered which, a nameless Apple programmer claims, proves that it never existed in the first place - it was simply a trap used to trace back the source of the leak.

No-one, it would appear, gets a free pass where these measures are concerned. The iPod's original developers had no idea what it would be called when it shipped, and even Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, can't tell his family what he's working on, for fear of the sack.

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