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+-   Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Touch Apps on Saturday August 09 2008, @06:54PM mikesd81

Submitted by mikesd81 on Saturday August 09 2008, @06:54PM
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mikesd81 writes "Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. It seems the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of "unauthorized" apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple's servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone.

Jonathan Zdziarski explains: "This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off. At the moment, no apps have been blacklisted, but by all appearances, this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut them down. I discovered this doing a forensic examination of an iPhone 3G. It appears to be tucked away in a configuration file deep inside CoreLocation."

This is very different from just removing an application from the App Store. In case of this black listing, Apple could presumably deauthorize applications already installed on every iPhone."
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