Apple company has started shipping hacker-friendly iPhones to security researchers who are participating in its Security Research Device (SRD) program. These iPhones will allow researchers to examine the iPhone Operating System (iOS) for security vulnerabilities and report them easily. The SDR program is meant to help improve security for all iOS users by bringing more security researchers to the platform and improve efficiency for those already working on iOS security. Instead, this hacker-friendly iDevice would be sent exclusively to security researchers. However, the hacker-friendly iPhones that is being given to researchers, doesn't have a locked-down version of iOS.

Source: dna December 24, 2020 08:26 UTC