In Israel, because there is a fear from terrorists, before you go into any shop, restaurant, mall, or university, your bag is searched (for ~30 seconds) and sometimes a metal detector is used (a hand-held one).
I know nothing about Apple HQ, but it would be trivial to set something like this up.
Unrelated, but they (Gizmodo) shouldn't have used the word 'gestapo' or anything else related to nazis.
And it's not just one off-handed comparison - the article goes on and on about it. It really trivializes the hardships of people who couldn't just leave and get another job, and where the stakes involved torture and death.
Not only that, but people opt to work at Apple, some of them not just in spite of the secrecy but because of it; Apple is super-sensitive because what their people work on tends to really matter in the marketplace.
Unrelated, but they (Gizmodo) shouldn't have used the word 'gestapo' or anything else related to nazis.