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Apple's mobile operating system has a bug that means it's possible to make someone’s iPhone crash by sending them a text message. Using a specific string of characters sent as an iMessage will cause the recipient’s phone to continuously crash and reboot. The string of characters is so specific that users are very unlikely to enter them by mistake. It’s only when someone who knows the string chooses to send it to an unwitting target (who also uses an iPhone) - to crash their device on purpose.
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[url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/iphone-users-beware-text-message-5770636[/url]
effective.
Power
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^The thing that you copy and paste. It worked for me; my friend and I are pretty sure it only works on phones that are running iOS 8.2 or earlier.
[QUOTE=Winner;47816586]didn't this exact same thing happen a few years ago[/QUOTE]
Probably, iOS is a piece of shit because of time constraints
This spread all over my school like wildfire. Now everyone isn't on their phones during class!
Well I'm glad I didn't open this thread with my iPad.
[editline]27th May 2015[/editline]
I remember last time something like this was found. Someone posted it in a Twitch stream chat and the number of viewers dropped by like 300.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;47816646]Well I'm glad I didn't open this thread with my iPad.
[editline]27th May 2015[/editline]
I remember last time something like this was found. Someone posted it in a Twitch stream chat and the number of viewers dropped by like 300.[/QUOTE]
opened the thread with my iphone 5s so at least just doing that doesn't trigger it; has to be an imessage I guess
[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;47816716]opened the thread with my iphone 5s so at least just doing that doens't trigger it; has to be an imessage I guess[/QUOTE]
if that arabic string has the center replaced with an ellipsis (...) in a notification, then it breaks
getting a text with this is fine:
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getting a text with message preview notifications on like this:
effective.
Power
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the string gets ellipsis'd and it all goes to fuck
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47816633]It isn't just iOS that's having issues lately.
This isn't Apples week let's just put it that way.[/QUOTE]
Don't know what that video is trying to prove, just tested it and it doesn't work.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47816793]i wasn't trying to prove anything? just posted what else apple has broken?[/QUOTE]
Then you'r trying to prove apple's shit is broken, which it's not...
[QUOTE=Winner;47816815]are you on the latest beta?[/QUOTE]
...unless it's on a beta build, in which case people should not be be bitching because it's a beta build.
But no, I am on yosemite 10.10.3. A bit behind, I believe.
If only this could be used as a exploit to install Cydia :v:
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47816886]What the fuck? I wasn't proving anything? I was simply making my input into this thread by posting clearly a bug? I never said anything about apples shit being broken. What's your issue.[/QUOTE]
well, first off, I never said you were trying to prove anything originally, I said the video was trying to prove something. But, considering you said "[B]just posted what else apple has broken?[/B]" you are trying to prove apple's broken shit by posting evidence of it and spreading knowledge about it.
Just drop it though, I want to hear more stories about this being abused.
Can't get it to work. Texting my friend on my nexus 5 doesn't crash her phone
Would it work on a 5C?
I don't know what OS that is running atm.
[QUOTE=mcgrath618;47816575]
my friend and I are pretty sure it only works on phones that are running iOS 8.2 or earlier.[/QUOTE]
I just tested it with a friend, crashed consistently three times, once per text i sent on ios 8.3.
[QUOTE=Th3applek1d;47816874]Then you'r trying to prove apple's shit is broken, which it's not...
...unless it's on a beta build, in which case people should not be be bitching because it's a beta build.
But no, I am on yosemite 10.10.3. A bit behind, I believe.[/QUOTE]
Typical cliche apple fanboy gibberish. Even your articulation is repugnant.
-snip replied to wrong person-
[QUOTE=Adlertag1940;47817168]What brand? I browse and game on windows, do everything else on UNIX, you know, the open source platform that you are paying out the ass to use?[/QUOTE]
(he was making fun of you)
Only person at our engineering company with an iPhone was one of our coop students and it worked on his, really funny
[QUOTE=Th3applek1d;47816782]Don't know what that video is trying to prove, just tested it and it doesn't work.[/QUOTE]
No, it definitely does work! It's possible that it's only some models/versions but I just watched it happen to someone right in front of me
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47817194](he was making fun of you)[/QUOTE]
Durrr, just realized. haha
To fix it, just send a photo to whoever messaged you the bug.
i think its caused by the left to right and right to left unicode characters. if you try and select it chrome goes all over the place
[QUOTE=Adlertag1940;47817168]-snip replied to wrong person-[/QUOTE]
If you think that OS X = Unix with some GUI, I have bad news for you...
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;47817024]Can't get it to work. Texting my friend on my nexus 5 doesn't crash her phone[/QUOTE]
she probably has notification previews off
I had to turn off texts because people have been texting me this every 5 minutes. It's annoying when iOS takes 4 fucking minutes to restart on my phone
For Cydia users, get HotHeadFix from Boss repo. It fixes issues like this really fast once they surface
Alright I probably shouldn't mention this, but you can send text messages from emails using cell service email servers, ie to text someone who is with koodo you can use <number>@msg.koodomobile.com ([url=http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/]list here[/url]). If it works from email as well, it'd be a nightmare because not only could you make a bot really easily but you could put whoever's email you wanted in the "from" section so that it would seem like someone else was doing it :v:
[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;47817455]snip [img]http://wikipunch.com/images/3/3d/2011rating_Late.png[/img][/QUOTE]
it happened once before this
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;47817281]she probably has notification previews off[/QUOTE]
No because she was complaining about it happening from others while when I sent it, she laughed
[QUOTE=Winner;47817158]Your allegiance to the brand repulses me. I am sovereign in the luminance of my superior Gentoo workstation.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes! You are one of the Gentoo wizards, are you not?
[video=youtube;VjGSMUep6_4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4[/video]
Friend tried to do this to me.
Not updating iOS for half a year finally paid off.
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