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The Great App Blacklist Debate

Jonathan Zdziarski has found what he believes to be a “call home” URL that the blogsphere has been reporting could/will be used to tell iPhone’s (and related Mobile OS X devices) to revoke the certificate of an application, blacklisting — effectively killing — it even if it has already been bought and paid for by the end user.

Huhbuwhathe#$%? Zdziarkski explains what he found during a forensic analysis of an iPhone 3G, specifically CoreLocation.

Read about that, the replies, and the whole sordid after the jump!

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