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Certain Text Message Can Cause iPhone to Crash
ktla ^
Posted on 05/27/2015 1:24:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A nasty computer bug in Apple’s iOS allows anyone who sends an iPhone a certain text message — with specific Latin and Arabic characters — to shut it down.
The worst part? You don’t even need to open the text message. Your device just needs to receive it.
That means anyone can pull off this prank — and anyone whose mobile number is known by someone else is susceptible
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: iphone
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:24:30 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:30:22 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: BenLurkin; Swordmaker
Swordmaker needs to be made aware of this.. I’d love to hear how a fep can be allowed to do this...
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:34:20 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
To: USMCPOP
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:35:12 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Do not send “Deus vult” and “Allah akbar” in the same text. They will fight.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:36:48 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
To: BenLurkin
Too bad there’s not an internet equivalent of artillery counterbattery fire. One that blows up in the virus senders’ faces!
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:41:41 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:41:55 PM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:51:22 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: BenLurkin
Apple may release an iOS 8.3.1 update to fix this problem probably by tomorrow morning, since they are aware of the bug.
However, the best way to get that update is to connect your iPhone to a computer that has iTunes 11.4 or later installed, since that supports all iPhones that run iOS 8.3. When connected to the computer, iTunes will download and install the update without using a Wi-Fi connection.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:51:31 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: BenLurkin
I’m currently on my iPhone, there’s no way this could hap
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:54:15 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: BenLurkin; MeshugeMikey
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:54:37 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: a fool in paradise
how sad it would be if Obie and hillary both got one of these messages...
will obie address this at his next presser?
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:04:47 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: BenLurkin
A malicious text message sent from a non iPhone to an iPhone can cause your iPhone to shut down when it displays the notification. . . It works with any app that is set to display a notification to the screen and also reset the Apple Watch. It fails to work with iMessages sent from iPhones to iPhones. . . so it is something in MMSmessging that does not work in iMessaging the same way. Quick fix if it was a "friend" who sent the "prank" is to have them send a second message from the same number to scroll the offending message off the notifications cue. . . apparently you can also receive any other message then delete the conversation including the offending text. There was a similar string that would cause the same issue last year that Apple fixed if put in iOS Safari's URL address field. — PING!
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:08:12 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: All
Damn auto correction. MMS = MSM Messaging. SHEESH!
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:11:40 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
Yep, my recollection is right. . . IOS 6 in 2013
WARNING: DON'T VISIT THE LINK BELOW ON AN IPHONE A colleague of mine, who works in the technology field, told me that there is a specific text string that can crash any iPhone (specifically iOS 6) which tries to display it. He alleges that the string will crash Safari if it's on a web page. But of greater impact, if it is messaged to an iPhone it will cause the messaging app to crash every time it's opened.
He also sent me a link that is supposed to make iPhones crash.
The colleague who told me about this is a reasonably smart guy, with a degree in computer science specialising in security (among other things), so I consider him a trustworthy source.
Does this string in the above link crash iPhones?
Same string. . .
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: BenLurkin
Certain Text Message Can Cause iPhone to Crash.
Like “Steve Jobs is not God”?..hell that will make and Apple fanboy flip out...it like defaming the Mohammad in Islam...
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:32:22 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: Swordmaker
Damn auto correction.Like the guy who apologized to his neighbor via text message for taking advantage of his wife while he way away. Right after the guy went upstairs and shot his wife dead for cheating on him with the neighbor, he received a second text from next door.
It read, "Sorry... wife=wifi - d@mned auto-correct got me again."
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:32:29 PM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: BenLurkin
That’s why I like my two cans and a piece of string.
For the younger people out there, that’s what kids used to falk with the kid next door years and years ago.
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:38:19 PM PDT
by
Duckdog
(If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
To: Swordmaker
Any operating system or programming language that crashes based on incoming data, or allows data to execute as an instruction, is a piece of junk.
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posted on
05/27/2015 2:42:53 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: BenLurkin
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