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<from Telegraaf.nl

Funny to see how news is brought; some sites are covering the “news about Iphone can phone home” as a big thing of the private investigators of Apple…..

Short;

Jonathan  Zdziarski (some kind of hot shot in apple world… who wrote already 2 books about the Iphone) discovered a little file on the new Iphone which is able to contact the Apple Headquarters….
All kind of conspiracies…..

But overhere; the reaction of Zdziarski himselve;

August 7, 2008: iPhone “Kill Swith” Myths and Rumors
So I post one little comment to a geek blog site about an “unauthorized apps” list downloaded by the iPhone, and every wanna-be-watergate journalist in the northern hemisphere emails me with conspiracy theories.

Allow me to set the record straight.

The locationd cache on the iPhone, located in /var/root/Library/Caches/locationd/, contains (among other things), a cache of unauthorized applications and a URL to a page on Apple’s servers where it is apparently downloaded from time to time. That’s all we know – nothing more. We do not know whether this mechanism is active, or what exactly it does. I haven’t even bothered disassembling the firmware, because I didn’t think anyone but “us geeks” would be interested. It might vaporize applications. It might simply prevent them from using the GPS. It might do nothing except upset the privacy advocates who don’t like their iPhone calling home. For all we know, it could trigger world war three, or it could cause some computer somewhere to spit out recipes for buttermilk pancakes. Journalists took a post to a geek news site a little out of proportion. This discovery definitely warrants some questions to Apple, and merits further research to determine what, if anything, this means for iPhone users. Personally, I’m rooting for the buttermilk pancakes theory.

Still – I am going for the ‘phone home’  option…. like ET wanted…..