Free at last

In this business you recognise that you seldom get a straight answer from a company spokesperson. They are paid to have a good opinion about their employer's products and as such are not to be trusted implicitly. But when they leave …

Look at the furore over Christopher Meyer's autobiography. Here's a man at the centre of government who told it like it is - once he'd left the service. His account opens a valuable insight into the way the world works.

Now a former Apple executive has opened his heart, and interesting reading it makes too.

Intellectual property protection is a morally defensible position but as he makes clear it sucks, badly. The current security regime makes us all innocent until proven guilty and anyone with a mind hates it. Fight back with any means possible.