If you haven't found out yet, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has very close relations with the American government and not only that, Steve Jobs repeatedly meeting with the American president Barack Obama, and the heads of the American congress welcomed Tim Cook with open arms. Because Apple is such a popular company, security is an important thing for it, and that flattered an American photographer who had the misfortune of being searched by the US Secret Service who was sent to his home by Apple. Normally, the Secret Service protects the American president, but he has a special division that deals with computer crimes, and this division was contacted by Apple and below I will tell you why.
It seems that the searched photographer at one point had the idea to make some timelapses and decided to install in the computers of an Apple Store an application that took the pictures taken by visitors on Macs and transferred them to his own computer. Although he spoke to an employee and asked him if he could do this operation, it seems that Apple did not agree with it, and the Secret Service was involved after hundreds or thousands of pictures ended up in the hands of the photographer. The whole story you can read it at Wired, where you can find out how the whole problem was solved, but I recommend you to be patient because everything stretches over no less than 8 pages.
