People are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps
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0.000 HBDPeople are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps
<div><img width="680" height="452" src="https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=680" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=680 680w, https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=1360 1360w, https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=150 150w, https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=300 300w, https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/gettyimages-607760398-e1518823137417.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px"> Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt + F4 trick and a script kiddie stunt and it ranges from being annoying to rendering a device unusable, depending on the tenacity of the troll. The bug causes many iOS and Mac apps to crash when… <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/iphone-bug-telugu-unicode-ios-mac-text-bomb/?ncid=rss">Read More</a></div> <p class="wpematico_credit"><small>Powered by <a href="http://www.wpematico.com" target="_blank">WPeMatico</a></small></p>