On the heels of finding out that Apple's App Store is making a killing in app downloads, we also find out that Apple is never too far away from your iPhone. Apple has a "Kill Switch". Yep, a kill switch. If, according to Steve Jobs, you download a a malicious application from the app store that somehow got through their armed guards at the digital gateway, Apple can hit the switch and render your iPhone App useless.
"Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull,"
An app that is considered malicious is of course determined by the good folks of Apple, so really that could mean any app for any reason they deem troublesome. You know, like a jailbreak app, not purchased from the app store.
Iran hanged 29 people at dawn on Sunday after they had been convicted of rape, armed robbery, murder, drug trafficking and other crimes. All were hanged inside Evin prison, north of the capital.
150 people have been executed in Iran so far this year, and International human rights groups have accused Iran of making excessive use of the death penalty, hmmmmmm, well, the US have executed 15 so far this year .....
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