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Apple Starts Shipping Hacker-Friendly iPhones to Security Researchers – PCMag AU

You can’t buy this iOS device, but it should help make all iPhones more secure.

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Back in July, Apple announced that it was making a special type of iPhone consumers wouldn’t be able to buy. Instead, this hacker-friendly iDevice would be sent exclusively to security researchers. This week, that new iPhone started shipping.
As you’d expect, the iPhones consumers receive include a locked-down version of iOS so as to make it very difficult for malicious software and hackers to take control of your device. However, security researchers have to work with the same version,…

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