Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter

The Apple engineer helped the US government allow data to be secretly recorded to an iPod hard drive from unrevealed additional hardware that the government added to the interior of the iPod. That the additional hardware was a Geiger counter appears to be pure speculation by the engineer.

And this was how Bechtel managed to root out the notorious break room farter, with the Fart Detector 9000.

Is here some kind of statute of limitations on revealing this?

Don't think the guy is under any obligation to keep quiet as he's not the one who has a security clearance? And it doesn't sound like there is any secret information here anyway, the guy is just guessing that it was a geiger counter.

"says" => "speculates".

And of course the HTML title and the title that would appear on social media shares of that article is "Secret geiger counter hidden inside iPod by US government".

Long live journalism!

Heh Heh Heh.

The modern equivalent would be "I used to work at Foxconn. My boss's boss came up to me and said 'I have a special assignment for you. Your boss doesn’t know about it. You’ll help two engineers from [somewhere gov related] build a special iDevice. Report only to me'".