“Company 2” has to be Qualcomm. Or am I misreading this? The only reason I think I’m misreading is because it’s so obviously Qualcomm that it seems silly for the article to call it “company 2”.

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mherkender 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Company 2, which develops system-on-chip (SoC) platforms such as the Snapdragon series

Only a lawyer could write this with a straight face

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akazantsev 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> On the night before the pair traveled to Iran in December 2023, Samaneh allegedly took about 24 photos of Khosravi’s work computer screen containing Company 2′s trade secrets, including *its* Snapdragon SoCs.

Keep reading.

	▲	onionisafruit 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s the point where I realized how thin the curtain is. Earlier the article talked about “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon” as an example of an SoC, but that could have been just to give the reader an idea of what an SoC is. But this line made it clear it wasn’t just an example.

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tomjakubowski 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good morning, class. A certain… agitator—for privacy's sake, let's call her Lisa S. No, that's too obvious. Uh, let's say L. Simpson—has raised questions about certain school policies…

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rdtsc 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yup. It’s like saying Company X which develops the iPhone smartphone.

It’s either extreme incompetence or cheeky disclosure while also technically not naming the company.

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krisoft 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> so obviously Qualcomm that it seems silly for the article to call it “company 2”

Redactions / aliases are sometimes quite transparent. When policy dictates that it must happen they do it even when it is not hard to puzzle out who the redaction / alias hides.

There is the famous interview where the NTSB was interviewing an expert in relation to the Oceangate tragedy. The expert's name was redacted, but he was described as "Co-Designer / Pilot of the Deepsea Challenger" which is already quite a specific thing. Not a lot of people can claim that. And then the interview started like this:

Q: So how did you get yourself started into submersible operations? <redacted>: Well, I'm sure you are familiar with my film Titanic.

I'm leaving the solution as an exercise for the reader. But it is a real world "Lisa S. No, that's too obvious. Uh, let's say L. Simpson." situation.

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