PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 893: DoS iMessage
A string of Unicode characters can prevent the iPhone’s built-in messaging app from opening. It’s something Apple will surely fix.
Links:
- A new iOS Bug Crashing iPhones by receiving a specific text message —Security Affairs “A bug affecting the Messages app allows a string of characters sent to a person via iMessage or SMS to crash an iPhone and cause the Messages app to crash A bug in
- A tiny string of text can disable iPhone Messages —The Verge “Apple device owners have discovered a string of text characters that, when received on an iPhone in Messages, can lock people out of the app and — reportedly in some cases — crash the
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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 893: DoS iMessage
