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chime on March 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literal...

Technically, Apple can remove an app remotely from all iDevies if they are legally required to do so. Whether they will be required to do that in this case is unknown.

alastairpat on March 28, 2012 [–]

I was under the impression that the iOS kill-switch was exclusively for rogue apps/malware.

Has it been used for legally questionable apps before? A bit of Google-fu didn't turn anything up immediately.

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