How to wipe out iPhone data programmatically?

I am developing an application for security purpose which has 1 requirement as "Wipe out iPhone data completely if iPhone is stolen".

While doing search for this functionality, I came across one application "Find My iPhone" here which supports this feature of "remotely wipe out all data".

I am not getting how this functionality is acheived. Can someone give me a solution for this problem?

I am not sure but I read that "Find My iPhone" uses 开发者_运维技巧"MobileMe Services". Can someone provide me usefule material or can someone explain me how to use this "MobileMe Service" for developing my application?

Remote wipe is only available for Exchange users and MobileMe users(through "Find My iPhone" app). MobileMe doesn't have a public api or sdk as far as i know.

"Find my iPhone" is developed by Apple so it wouldn't surprise me if they are using some private API with some cloud services to achieve this feature. I read that the phone needs an internet connection and push enabled in order to make the wipe work .

You can't implement this without jailbreaking - simple as.

Applications are locked down inside of sandboxes. You can't access resources outside of those sandboxes - iOS just won't allow you. Your app doesn't have read/write permissions outside of its sandbox.