60 million downloads, $30 million, 30 days - AppStore ain't too shabby.

[cranie]

The backdoor kill switch rumored about, designed to killall any malicious app from the comfort of Steve's desk in Cupertino, which was discovered by iPhone hacker extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski just a few days ago, has been confirmed by Jobs himself,

Zdziarski also posted a method for blocking Apple’s kill-switch, which requires jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod touch, then adding the following entry into /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 iphone-services.apple.com

[iphonekid]

App-store= Great for things like better games
Cydia-Installer= Great for things like winter/summer board and customize
Jailbroken 2.0.1= Everything so stop whining

[Muggz5]

Zdziarski also posted a method for blocking Apple’s kill-switch, which requires jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod touch, then adding the following entry into /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 iphone-services.apple.com

Everything I've read points to this only applies to 3G phones, or newer phones. Doesnt make much sense considering its supposedly in the firmware not the hardware. So, wouldnt it apply to all updated firmwares?

[cranie]

I would think it involves any firmware that has the appstore function regardless of device version.

[Muggz5]

I would think it involves any firmware that has the appstore function regardless of device version.

indeed thanks!

[imode]

Everything I've read points to this only applies to 3G phones, or newer phones. Doesnt make much sense considering its supposedly in the firmware not the hardware. So, wouldnt it apply to all updated firmwares?

It would since all this is doing is assigning that address to the internal loopback address otherwise known as localhost. So any application that tries to open that URL will simply loopback on itself.