Disabling home button on iPhone/iPad

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Published on 2010-05-20T02:37:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 2:40 UTC
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First of all, I'm completely aware that doing this will get my app rejected by Apple, that it's a poor user experience, and so on.

My question is fairly simple, is there a way using private APIs to disable the home button? The aim is to effectively put an iPad into kiosk mode.

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