He probably consulted with the military on computers. I don't see anything unusual with him having a secret clearance. Don't think many will be surprised.

Well, only guessing...

The pocket computer is potentially a great tool for the soldier to communicate and receive information in the form of diagrams and maps.

If Jobs was helping develop such technology it would have been cutting edge, and thus secret.

Gov seems to recruit people they know can help without being very public about it.

Now we need an infantry guy to tell us what toys they have now, cause I don't know...

Hell I still hold my top secret clearance as I was a Military Police officer. You have to have secret clearance to become one and once I was trained and assigned to protect dignataries I had to get cleared at the top secret level. Since I have stayed in law enforcement since I left my security clearance is supposedly still in effect. Not that it does me any good lol.

He needed it for his
Bob Lazzar
reverse engineering tek.

The top secret clearance kept
things underwrap a hush hush
operation.

Most likely where all those weird
unidentified crafts people have
seen over the years. The code name
something like iUFO.

I mean why else would he need
all this top secret clearance. Only makes
sense.

Apple created the majority of the reverse engineered alien technology. hence, Jobs needed clearance..

that and Jobs wanted to help the mil spy on all..

too much speculation?

My guess is he and Bill got one when they acquired the windowed computer idea from xerox at darpa.

a major player in information technology would absolutely have a TS clearance from the govt. Communications are a very important part of the operation of the govt and military. There was even a plan for every GI to have a smart phone, it would be operated like RIM but tailored to military network's BFT system. The means for securing a handheld device that is notorious for being lost, manipulated, and other nefariousness ends would require a very high clearance for the parties at the top of the chain.

Yah, and in couple of months were going to read a thread about how Steve Jobs was really assassinated and really didn't die from natural causes.

Having a clearance is only half of the puzzle.

To see something secret you also have to have the "need to know"

Getting the clearance is usually just an issue of cost and time.

In the Navy now, even in the reserve, everyone has to be cleared to at least secret. TS is more for communications and intel. Then above that was the SBI or special background investigation. And also you can add a polygraph. Probably have been some changes since I was around that stuff. Last time I updated my clearance was in 2006. And it was just for the reserve then.

Originally posted by predator0187

I wonder why he would need a top secret security clearance.

consultation on artificial intelligence ... ??

Also weaponizing computers, maybe? Or at least consultation on military applications, and government agency computer programming stuff.

Also the development of the other internet, the one the military and other agencies utilize.