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Apple made a top secret iPod for the US government fifteen years ago

August 20, 2020

Via: TechSpot
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Apple software engineer David Shayer recounts the tale in Apple newsletter Tidbits. He writes that fifteen years ago, the director of iPod software informed him that two engineers from the Department of Energy wanted a special iPod built. It turned out that the pair—Paul and Matthew—actually worked for Bechtel, a large US defense contractor to the DoE.

The pair wanted custom hardware added to an iPod that would record data from this hardware to the iPod’s disk in a way that wouldn’t be easily detected. The device must still work as a music player, too.

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