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In 2005, the US government worked on making a secret custom version of the iPod without the knowledge of founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. Only four people knew about its existence in a very fascinating account given by former iPod engineer David Shayer.

 

The four comprising of Shayer, director of iPod Software, the vice president of the iPod Division, and the senior vice president of Hardware. They all communicated in person with no written or electronic communication between all four. None of them work with Apple anymore.

 

Shayer starts the story like this:

 

“It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software—my boss’s boss—abruptly entered and closed the door behind him. He cut to the chase. “I have a special assignment for you. Your boss doesn’t know about it. You’ll help two engineers from the US Department of Energy build a special iPod. Report only to me.”

 

The task was this; “add some custom hardware to an iPod and record data from this custom hardware to the iPod’s disk in a way that couldn’t be easily detected. But it still had to look and work like a normal iPod.” 

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One of the four, former vice president of iPod Tony Fadell confirms Shayer’s story on his Twitter page. Fadell shared the story written on Apple content network tidBITS.

 

 

The secret custom iPod got built and Shayer believed they were building a stealth Geiger counter.

 

“Something that looked innocuous, that played music, and functioned exactly like a normal iPod. You could walk around a city, casually listening to your tunes, while recording evidence of radioactivity—scanning for smuggled or stolen uranium, for instance, or evidence of a dirty bomb development program—with no chance that the press or public would get wind of what was happening”. 

 

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