Did anyone else see the sketch Stephen Colbert did on the iPhone Kill Switch earlier today?Stephen Colbert starts talking about the iPhone “kill switch.†This is when Apple iPod Touch and Apple iPhone regularly check-in with Apple servers to ensure that undesireable software is not installed.
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“To my way of thinking, the issue is that you don’t really know what your phone might be doing or not be doing,” Greengart said. “I am not 100 percent sure what the capability is or is not. That is the problem. What is the capability? When might they use it? When wouldn’t they use it? Is there anything else Apple is not disclosing?”
Watch the video below. Steve Jobs even confirmed its existence, saying Apple would only blacklist apps unless they absolutely had to.