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Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty

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Geekz Snow
Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty

Now Apple is taking an unprecedented step: distributing a more hacker-friendly iPhone to its favorite researchers, letting them hack the phone on "easy mode" in the interests of making it harder for everyone else.

Its iOS bug bounty will pay out up to $1.5 million for a single attack technique that a researcher discovers and shares discreetly with Apple.

At the Black Hat security conference Thursday, Ivan Krstić, Apple's head of security engineering and architecture, announced a broad revamping of the company's bug bounty program.

These devices will lack some layers of security protections so that their recipients may dig into the deeper, less examined core of the phone.

"We want to attract some of the exceptional researchers who have thus far been focusing their time on other platforms.

They'll also have debugging abilities that will allow researchers to easily scour the phone's code for flaws.

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