Blacklist URL Only Blocks Core Location

A few days ago, I wrote about the blacklist URL that someone discovered buried deep within the iPhone that could potentially work to shut down malicious apps on your iPhone, even after you've purchased them. But now it looks like this URL "only blocks malicious apps from accessing the iPhone's Core Location functions," according to MacRumors. 

It seems the fragment "clbl" in this URL stands for "Core Location Blacklist" and that it prevents any apps that are on the list from being allowed into the Core Location, which allows applications to sense the iPhone user's location by means of GPS and Wi-Fi. 

But that's not to say Apple can't disable apps remotely, this URL just isn't the way they go about doing it. 

[via MacRumors]