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Apple Bug Alert
Prepare for a tough weekend Apple owners.
A short unicode string has been discovered that will crash any apple device running anything lower than ios7 or Mavericks. http://doesmyphonecrash.tumblr.com/ Follow the link at your own risk More on the story at Techcrunch http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/bug...s-x-10-8-apps/ |
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if you send the characters in an SMS, it can initiate a revolving crash of Messages on both OS X and iOS. We confirmed this on both operating systems. You can also deliver the string of text via a web link.
muhahahaha The TC article seems to revolve around ways to crash other people's devices... |
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I'm so tempted to post the sentence on here.....
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I'm so tempted to post the sentence on here.....
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muhahahaha
The TC article seems to revolve around ways to crash other people's devices... https://twitter.com/nickdepetrillo |
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Am sorely tempted to set the SSID of my lumia's wifi hotspot to it and stand outside starbucks tomorrow just to wind up the iOwners...
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Oh I had not thought if changing my ssid
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Bug?
Reads like a 'designed within the OS' drive by malware/spy trick to me. That's the thing with coding. Spotting intended bugs is often near impossible. Yet the fact that it applies to arabic sticks out like a sore thumb. Not a hoax though? |
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Bug?
Reads like a 'designed within the OS' drive by malware/spy trick to me. That's the thing with coding. Spotting intended bugs is often near impossible. Yet the fact that it applies to arabic sticks out like a sore thumb. Not a hoax though? Only if apple owners have developed a sense of humour http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...8#post17805028 It seems that it is Unicode rather than Arabic |
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Bug?
Reads like a 'designed within the OS' drive by malware/spy trick to me. That's the thing with coding. Spotting intended bugs is often near impossible. Yet the fact that it applies to arabic sticks out like a sore thumb. Not a hoax though? |
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It's not a hoax. The string was posted on this very thread, but thankfully it's now been removed.
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It's not a hoax. The string was posted on this very thread, but thankfully it's now been removed.
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Apple are aware enough of the issue to delete any posts asking about it on their own forum.
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Is it really bad i want to send this to my pals with iphones?
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Thought it was something to get worried about for a second. Phew!!
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I wasn't denying that Apple are aware of the issue.
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So is this the same issue I've been having for the past god knows how long? Sometimes safari will just freeze up. Not THAT often just sometimes
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So is this the same issue I've been having for the past god knows how long? Sometimes safari will just freeze up. Not THAT often just sometimes
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Am sorely tempted to set the SSID of my lumia's wifi hotspot to it and stand outside starbucks tomorrow just to wind up the iOwners...
So much so, I tried it on my own 920. The string doesn't paste in properly unfortunately. The first couple of characters just don't paste in. Shame. I did send a page link to it to the guy at work who sits opposite me and has an iPhone. It did indeed crash his browser. I thought sending him a text of it might have been a bit harsh! Off to see if it will paste in as my bluetooth identity now. Fun fun fun!
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^^^ No I don't think it is fun, to try to crash other peoples devices. Suppose you think hackers are great and modern day "Robbin Hoods" until they hack your "Play account"
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Sorry wasn't suggesting you were
It is a fairly light guess but fair guess that it came from Apple's Israel development team. Rather than using the arabic unicode for espionage, it could have been an innocent, maybe accidental left, test string. One thing for sure. Apple's proprietary nature and walled garden policies make it harder for these things to be ever picked by security teams. It often looks that people making good use of them only bring them to light when they are about to disappear. Whatever the truth on this, there are certainly many a dozen other ways to spy on/hack you. |
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Well I'm suggesting you post without quite understanding what you are talking about. (re Unicode)
It is a fairly light guess but fair guess that it came from Apple's Israel development team. Rather than using the arabic unicode for espionage, it could have been an innocent, maybe accidental left, test string. One thing for sure. Apple's proprietary nature and walled garden policies make it harder for these things to be ever picked by security teams. It often looks that people making good use of them only bring them to light when they are about to disappear. Whatever the truth on this, there are certainly many a dozen other ways to spy on/hack you. I only ask because I am clearly to dumb to understand that Apple are perfect in every way. |
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^^^ No I don't think it is fun, to try to crash other peoples devices. Suppose you think hackers are great and modern day "Robbin Hoods" until they hack your "Play account"
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fair comment but it only crashes apps not the whole OS.
If being the start segment of malware it is likely missing a payload. The crash could even have now opened a backdoor to everyone affected. There could even now be a team of people now plundering all these devices remotely. (very very unlikely) |
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No one knows what it fully does or how it came about.
If being the start segment of malware it is likely missing a payload. The crash could even have now opened a backdoor to everyone affected. There could even now be a team of people now plundering all these devices remotely. (very very unlikely) |
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