![]() ![]() The senior VP passed the request down to the vice president of the iPod Division, who delegated it to the director of iPod Software, who came to see me. I learned that an official at the Department of Energy had contacted Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware, requesting the company’s help in making custom modified iPods. My job was to provide any help they needed from Apple. But it still had to look and work like a normal iPod. ![]() They wanted to 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. They didn’t actually work for the Department of Energy they worked for a division of Bechtel, a large US defense contractor to the Department of Energy. I signed them in, and we went to a conference room to talk. I’d love to say they wore dark glasses and trench coats and were glancing in window reflections to make sure they hadn’t been tailed, but they were perfectly normal thirty-something engineers. I went downstairs to meet Paul and Matthew, the engineers who would actually build this custom iPod. The next day, the receptionist called to tell me that two men were waiting in the lobby. You’ll help two engineers from the US Department of Energy build a special iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software-my boss’s boss-abruptly entered and closed the door behind him. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. #1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. ![]() #1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down. ![]()
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