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Here is Apple’s official ‘jailbroken’ iPhone for security researchers


A security researchers shared a picture of the instructions that go along Apple's Security Research Device and more details about this special iPhone.

Despite these seemingly innocuous goals, Apple waged war against the jailbreakers for years, discouraging people from disabling the security features of their iPhones. “This allows the rest of the security policies to remain enabled, providing the flexibility of a jailbroken device, while keeping the systems you’re investigating intact in a customer-like state.” These “dev-fused” devices are essentially iPhones that have not gone through the complete production process, or were previously used internally at Apple to test features, and never intended to end up in the hands of consumers.

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