From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system
Verbatim, as apologists _hate_ facts - which is why they deny all facts (without even clicking the cites containing the facts they brazenly deny).
"The thing that his team had been able to analyze for the first time was
the iPhone's Secure Enclave Processor (SEP), which handles data
encryption for the iPhone."
"At the time, they may have been the first ones to get to the SEP,
but thanks to the proliferation of dev-fused iPhones, others have
repeated their feat. Lisa Braun, a pseudonymous independent iOS
researcher, recently claimed to have dumped the SEP from an
iPad Air 2 prototype.
And he is not the only one."
o The Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple's Most Sensitive Code
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyakgw/the-prototype-dev-fused-iphones-that-hackers-use-to-research-apple-zero-days>
"Solnik's team used a dev-fused iPhone, which was created for internal use
at Apple, to extract and study the sensitive SEP software, according to
four sources with specific knowledge of how the research was done."
"Once I started looking for dev-fused iPhones, they weren't that hard to
find, provided you're willing to shell out a few thousand bucks."
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"To be honest everyone benefits from Apple's lousy supply chain
management," Viktor Oreshkin, an iOS security researcher, told Motherboard
in an online chat. "Except Apple, obviously."
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