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Phone Home Feature Only For Blacklisting Location-Aware Apps?

Remember that code Jonathan Zdziarski found a few days ago that he said allowed the new 2.x iPhone software to phone home to Apple, letting them zap apps that they blacklisted? Initially we weren't really sure if Apple would be using it as a security precaution or to zap any apps that they don't happen to like anymore, but Daring Fireball's John Gruber has another, less dubious theory.

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