Does anyone out there remember the specifics of the Apple engineer that got fired when he got caught trying to hide an image of Britney Spears in some Macintosh ROM? I think I probably read about it in a MacWeek article, but it seems to have sunk beneath the waves where even search engines can't find it anymore…
EDIT: Maybe it was Paula Abdul? At any rate, some singer he was obsessed with!
@dillera@heavyboots Reminds me a little of how someone—well, a couple of someones, apparently—hid the Olivia de Berardinis "Zebra Lady" painting in the About box of the first run of MacPaint 2.0.
I recall hearing about some fireworks when upper management learned of this (and that image was removed pretty quickly, so not a lot of shipped MacPaint versions actually had it) but I don't know if anyone actually got fired over it.
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