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Traditionally, Blackberry has been the choice of the majorly security conscious, but the times are changing. iOS has been shaping up to be pretty secure, and has even coaxed some US government agencies to jump ship. Now a security firm in Virgina is “neutering” iPads so G men can use those too.
The report comes from Bloomberg, which says the company with the cyber-snippers is one CACI International Inc. What this “neutering” process—CACI’s own words—actually involves is anyone’s guess, but chances are it has something to do with the wireless capabilities, and maybe the camera. CACI CEO Dan Allen put it this way to Bloomberg: “It’s a neutered iPad. We’re working on how do we effectively brand it.”
According to Allen, any iPads you already see in a US government leader’s hands, probably came from CACI or someone they work with. So far no one in the government has made a statement about whether or not Obama’s iPad has gotten the treatment, but it doesn’t seem unlikely. If this really takes off, you could start seeing a lot more iPads in active government service, but only if they’ve lost their fun bits first. [Bloomberg via 9to5Mac]
I don’t understand why this could be anything more elaborate than Mobile Device Management. Lot’s of companies around the globe using this technology. It allows you to limit applications, content and core functionality on the devices.
They will be removing the chips that record data. some chips keep logs of what the device has done.
They dont you know. The whole device is encrypted on the fly and all apps and data are sandboxed. Logs are only available in supervisor mode and need to be tethered prior to enrolment in an MDM solution.
That photo is a shop…I can tell because of the pixels.
Well…the smoke is added on. It looks like the soldering iron is not even on.
Photograph not true to life – call the police!
Yeah – and I’m pretty sure that’s not an iPad circuit board either!
Stock imagery mate, its not like the US Govt are gonna release a close up photo of a security firm’s work for them.
“doesn’t seem unlikely”
seems likely? Just saying……
/pedant mode
those two things are not the same.
Er,
does seem likely = doesn’t seem unlikely
I think so!?
sometimes a double negative provides a weakened affirmative. you are thinking too logically.
Thank you!