Apple created for the U.S. Government special iPod with radiation sensor

In the middle of August, 2020 it became known that Apple developed for the U.S. Government special iPod with radiation sensor. The former developer of the company David Shayer told about the device.

In 2001 Sheyer was the second software engineer whom Apple employed for work on the iPod project which was at that time known under internal code name P68. In 2005 the director of software development for iPod addressed Sheyer in circumvention of the guide. Offered it absolutely confidential task - to help two engineers to develop special iPod from the Ministry of Energy, having modified the operating system for data collection from the third-party equipment.

Apple created for the U.S. Government special iPod with radiation sensor

According to Sheyer, engineers of the Ministry of Energy received office in a campus of Apple to learn complex work with the early iPod operating system. Unlike today's iOS, software was absolutely new and did not use earlier used code of Apple. The Ministry of Energy was going to add the additional hardware which could write imperceptibly data on an internal memory of a player to iPod. At the same time the device had to look and work as normal iPod.

Only four persons, any of whom does not work in the company now, knew about the project. There is no paper trace of the project left. Sheyer did not learn that engineers added to iPod and what data were hoped to collect, however came to a conclusion that it was the confidential Geiger counter which could be used for record of radioactive indications. For storage of the hidden information on iPod the additional section which was not visible at normal connection of a player to the computer was created, and for start of entry in the most distant part of the menu of settings the imperceptible option appeared.^[1]

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