In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs confirmed that Apple did indeed build a remote iPhone application disabling feature into the iPhone’s Mac OS. The remote application disabling feature has been referred to as the “Blacklist” feature because it allows the iPhone to connect to Apple’s servers to check for any [...]

It seems that there’s an alternative explanation to the discovery of an iPhone feature that allows the handset to phone home (connect to an Apple server) and check for unauthorized applications. The “Blacklist” feature, as it’s been called recently, checks the iPhone’s installed application against a known list (a blacklist, if you will) of malicious [...]

Sounds a bit Orwellian, doesn’t it? The idea that some corporate entity can monitor the applications installed on your iPhone and remotely disable blacklisted apps just seems wrong. But, newly discovered code within the iPhone 2.0 OS and the newer iPhone 2.0.1 OS has confirmed that Apple has built a blacklisting mechanism in to the [...]