If you have ever wondered how it is broken iOS by hackers and IT security experts, well here we have a detail of how everything is done contrary to the wishes of the American company. Phone prototypes are used for these procedures iPhone which were removed from Apple's laboratories during testing by engineers, they have many security functions disabled because they are intended for internal use, not for sale.
Since these iPhones are made to be used only within Apple, they have certain iOS security features disabled, and that's how vulnerabilities in the operating system are discovered. Phones of this kind are sold for amounts up to several tens of thousands of dollars on the black market, precisely because they allow the very easy discovery of vulnerabilities for iOS that would normally never be discovered.
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Phones of this kind are "hunted" by Cellebrite, which hacked iPhones for the FBI for hundreds of thousands of dollars, or GrayKey, which sells to the US police devices that can be used to hack iDevices. Phones of this type are sold with a proprietary cable of Apple, which is called Kanzi, it normally costs about 2000 dollars, and which provides access to a special software that reveals the internet components of the iDevices, and provides root access, of the administrator, to them, as if they had a jailbreak.
On the back of dev-fused iPhones seen by Motherboard, there's a QR-code sticker, a separate barcode, and a decal that says "FOXCONN," referring to the factory that makes iPhones and other Apple products. Otherwise, the phones look like normal iPhones. That standard iPhone experience ends when the phone is turned on. When booted up, you briefly see a command line terminal. And then when it loads, gone are the sleek icons and colorful backgrounds of iOS.
Phones of this kind are stolen not only from Apple's laboratories in Cupertino, but also from those in China, where the prototypes are tested before launch, and those from Apple know very well what is happening. However, despite their efforts to block this practice, for now they are very far from being successful, but they probably don't really want it either, because these vulnerabilities keep the American authorities away from passing a law that would oblige their creation in operating systems.
