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Apple Security Research Device

Apple Security Research Device

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Comments (83)

  • alt227
    If you sign up to this program and use one of their devices for 'research', then you are bound by contract to report any security bugs to them and only them (unless the bug is in a 3rd party app). I see this as a pretty sneaky way of avoiding your security vulnerabilities going public and all the bad media exposure that goes along with it.It is giving security researchers something they have always wanted in return for their silence. Another way to put it is bribery.
  • ACCount39
    Create a problem, and then heroically fight to make a solution.This shouldn't exist in the first place. There would be no need for it if Apple didn't insist on "we own all the iPhones, our users just get to tap at them".If you could just unlock the bootloader, re-enable SWD and do what you want with an iPhone that you actually own, there would be no need for this restrictive program at all.
  • lrvick
    Surely everyone sees this as an obvious trap to get researchers to sign NDAs for all research in advance, right?Do not fall for it. Publish everything publicly after appropriate embargo periods.
  • jubilee33
    Wait are they really expecting free labor by offering an unlocked iphone (the basic tool needed to perform said labor anyways) to use, not own, as the compensation? And "maybe" some free credits? People are willing to work for cheap these days for sure.
  • alt227
  • potatoproduct
    The title should be "Apple bribes security researchers with free devices"
  • ta8903
    Cool. Where can I buy one.
  • sbseitz
    Does this include... Israel being able to pwn any Apple device ?
  • userbinator
    "Help us make the nooses we put around your necks tighter."
  • tamimio
    Lol is this a joke? So you are leased a device to find vulnerabilities, that you can’t report anywhere but to apple? Mostly for free?! Why would anyone do that? If I found one sure i will give sometime to the vendor to patch it out of courtesy, then I will publish my own results, I own it, no one works for free, touch some grass, apple.