Yet even MORE evidence of upcoming iTunes rentals

Today's evidence comes to you courtesy of the Apple iPhone. iPhone Developer Pumpkin. He has discovered even more rental-specific information, this time in the iPhone's lockdown daemon file. Lockdown is responsible for authorizing your iPhone for services. For example the lockdown files are involved in authorizing phone service and is also responsible for communication between the device and the computer in general

A string search through the lockdownd executable in /usr/libexec produced the following hits when searched for "rental":

pumpkin:~ pumpkin$ strings /usr/local/share/iphone-filesystem/usr/libexec/lockdownd | grep -i rental
 trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not retrieve FairPlayID
 trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not initialize FairPlay context
 trigger_rental_bag_verification: Could not verify the rental bag response: %d
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not retrieve FairPlayID
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not initialize FairPlay context
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not generate rental bag request
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not create mutable dictionary
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFData from request message
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFArray
 load_rental_bag_request: Could not create CFNumber from indice
 RentalBagResponse
 RentalBagRequest
 pumpkin:~ pumpkin$

As of last night, Apple still did not have a public rentalBag web objects interface the way it does for storeBag and secureBag, the two XML files it publishes on its Phobos server. Hopefully, once readers start occasionally pinging http://phobos.apple.com/rentalBag.xml.gz and http://phobos.apple.com/rentalBag.xml, you'll let us know via the Tip line if and when you see any life.

Thanks PlanetBeing