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Apple announces developer iPhones with root access for security research

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Geekz Snow
Apple announces developer iPhones with root access for security research

For all we’ve made fun of Apple‘s walled garden here, every once in a while, the company opens up just a bit.

Case in point: today the company revealed it would be producing a limited amount of iOS ‘Security Research Devices.’ These appear to basically be iPhones with far deeper access than available to everyday users, including access to ssh, root shell, and ‘advanced debug capabilities.’ A jailbroken iPhone without having to do any jailbreaking.

Apple giving out pre-jailbroken research iPhones to security researchers starting next year, and will pay up to $1M for zero click remote chain with persistence pic.twitter.com/uiJNhb8AD8

— Billy Ellis @ Blackhat/Defcon (@bellis1000) August 8, 2019

The company made the announcement at the Black Hat conference today, an update to the bug bounty program it launched three years ago.

The deeper access should make researchers’ lives a lot easier, able to access deeper iOS functions without waiting for a jailbreak to be available for every update.

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