The biter bit, it seems: MacWeek magazine has grown fat on security leaks at Apple, but according to the San Jose Mercury News, someone has walked off with a copy of a database of outside developers and inside sources that was stored on a computer at the magazine; the database contained such notations as knows a lot, and cultivate this source carefully next to key names, some of which were Apple employees that have helped the weekly publication keep tabs on the company’s inner workings, according to the paper – all of which means that a whole string of Apple staffers are anxiously awaiting the midday knock on the office door and intensive interrogation by Apple’s thought police – or perhaps the whole story was cooked up for the Mercury by an angry Apple wanting to keep its secrets to itself, because MacWeek’s executive editor Dan Farber confirmed to Newsbytes that it is likely someone made off with a Rolodex-type file, but We’re not exactly sure what it is because the Mercury News never contacted us, and denies that any confidential sources were on it.
