The Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code

guest · Mar 7, 2019

The Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code
March 6, 2019
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In other words, they are pre-jailbroken devices.
These rare iPhones have many security features disabled, allowing researchers to probe them much more easily than the iPhones you can buy at a store.

Dev-fused iPhones that were never intended to escape Apple’s production pipeline have made their way to the gray market, where smugglers and middlemen sell them for thousands of dollars to hackers and security researchers.

And I learned that these devices are used by some of the highest-profile companies and independent experts that research and hack iOS to find valuable bugs that may later be exploited by governments and law enforcement agencies.
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