• Gizmondo, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:15 PM

Have you heard about the "Apple Gestapo"? According to Gizmodo, that's what Apple employees call a clandestine group of moles who spy on Apple consumers and employees, and report directly to Steve Jobs and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's SVP and Chief Financial Officer.

"Apple has these moles working everywhere, especially in departments where leaks are suspected," a source who goes by the name Tom tells Gizmodo. "Management is not aware of them."

While it admits that secrecy is paramount to success in today's extremely competitive marketplace, the tech blog mourns the company's loss of innocence, "from a happy hippie company, to a company that does KGB-style lockdowns and Gestapo interrogations."

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