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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by unishark on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:22PM (#23923876)
> Since not just anyone can be approved, I don't think I"d consider that "anyone".

I took the parent to mean you "just need to be approved" to do debugging via this program, but not to use other means to do debugging, which you don't need approval for, hence anyone can do.

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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by beenBoutIT on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:29AM (#23924427)
The deal is that anyone willing to cough up the $100 developer fee is going to be 'approved'. Apple's not in a position to DQ anyone who's even remotely interested in making iOS more secure.
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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by saagarjha on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:06AM (#23925212)
Why not? Their bug bounty program that they had previously was quite selective, for reference.
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