Sunday, October 12, 2008

Apple able to Delete Your iPhone Apps by Remote using Secret URL

It is assumed that his "life in your pocket," not from Apple. However, a snippet of code found in the iPhone operating system could keep under control of Apple.

Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, he discovered a hidden URL of the iPhone in CoreLocation he believes that the iPhone uses to check whether any application on your phone line with those in a database of applications of blacklist. Presumably, that would allow remote Apple-authorized applications, or even eliminate them.

"This suggests that the iPhone calls home from time to time to determine which applications should be shut down," wrote Zdrianski. "At the moment, no applications have been" blacklisted ", but by all appearances, this has been added to disable the applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if it so chooses Apple to shut it down."

Hum. So everyone who got away with NetShare before it disappeared from the App Store are not so sure lucky after all.

Now, if Apple were more organized with regard to what appears and disappears from the App Store, which probably do not need this emergency procedure. What is the point of a process of approval if the useless, $ 1000 "I'm rich" app is going to make the door, only to be removed immediately after?

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