Apple may neutralize apps remotely on your iPhone
We now know that Apple can make apps disappear without any trace (or explanation) ’s App Store. But Jonathan Zdziarsi, the author of the book iPhone Forensics, says that Apple can also disable remote applications installed on your iPhone.
Apparently there is a blacklist of URLs in the operating system of the iPhone which, according to Jonathan “suggests that the iPhone calls at home from time to time to see what applications it must neutralize. He explains that he found lurking in a configuration file at the bottom of CoreLocation” by conducting an autopsy of the iPhone 3G. It seems it is intended to disable malicious applications, not those that Apple does not and could have withdrawn from the App Store.
After all, no application has appeared in the list at the time, that small curious who viewed the URL (I have the names of leaders) have found themselves. In addition NetShare, the application withdrawn Store remains functional on all phones on which we have installed, even after a synchronization.
But the phone invade someone is very different from simple withdrawal of an application for their virtual store. If Apple were to use this unique power, they should explain it. The usual silence is not sufficient.
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