Hey folks. The hackers at DarkSide didnât mean to shut down our gas pipeline and trigger a panic. Theyâre a business, darn it. Helped by the US Congress, which refuses to mandate tough security standards. This is a special free edition of Plaintext. To read it every week, The Plain View If there is one word for Christopher Stringerâs 22-year career at Apple, it might be âunsung.â Though his name is on around 1,400 patents, the Australian-born and UK-raised designer was seldom heard of outside Cupertino. The one exception occurred not at a keynote appearance, but at a trial where he testified about a complicated patent dispute between his employer and Samsung.