Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the book iPhone Forensics Manual, has recently discovered that the new iPhone OS (2.x) has a blacklisting method.
The kill switch would offer Apple a more targeted weapon to snuff out
offending apps than its existing capacity to revoke a developer’s
signing certificate, an action that could ultimately be used to shut
down every application being distributed by a developer. The more
accurate aim of the new system may leave the company less hesitant to
use it in rooting out apps it finds undesirable.
- the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off. At present , but this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut them down.
- It appears to be tucked away in a configuration file deep inside CoreLocation
- this is entirely different from Apple removing/delisting the application from the App Store.
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