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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 387914" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>There's an article in the Telegraph telling us of a text message "doing the rounds" that will crash an iphone or ipad.</p><p></p><p>I won't link to the telegraph article as rather irresponsibly it seems to be reproducing the particular character sequence almost inviting you to "give it a try"</p><p></p><p>The only solution is to turn off message notifications.</p><p></p><p>Here's my thoughts on this:</p><p></p><p>A text message is just that, a bit of text that has to be displayed on the screen so you can read it.</p><p></p><p>So the software to read a text message and display it on the screen is really simple basic stuff. It just has to display the characters. No complicated code to interpret or execute, just display some characters.</p><p></p><p>We are told i thingies are so much better than windoze thingies and so much less vunerable to attacks.</p><p></p><p>But some "genius" of a programmer has managed to implement a bit of code that is supposed to just display some text on a screen, and make it so it interprets the message in some way that it crashed the device. It really must be a "genius" of a programmer to mess that up so badly. Heaven help him if he actually tries to code something that's actually complicated.</p><p></p><p>And so this rogue message has been "discovered" and what do we have? A national newspaper telling everybody that cares to read it, exactly what the rogue sequence of characters is. So now anyone that wants a bit of "fun" can mess up all their friends i thingy devices.</p><p></p><p>Pure and utter genius on all levels. NOT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 387914, member: 6969"] There's an article in the Telegraph telling us of a text message "doing the rounds" that will crash an iphone or ipad. I won't link to the telegraph article as rather irresponsibly it seems to be reproducing the particular character sequence almost inviting you to "give it a try" The only solution is to turn off message notifications. Here's my thoughts on this: A text message is just that, a bit of text that has to be displayed on the screen so you can read it. So the software to read a text message and display it on the screen is really simple basic stuff. It just has to display the characters. No complicated code to interpret or execute, just display some characters. We are told i thingies are so much better than windoze thingies and so much less vunerable to attacks. But some "genius" of a programmer has managed to implement a bit of code that is supposed to just display some text on a screen, and make it so it interprets the message in some way that it crashed the device. It really must be a "genius" of a programmer to mess that up so badly. Heaven help him if he actually tries to code something that's actually complicated. And so this rogue message has been "discovered" and what do we have? A national newspaper telling everybody that cares to read it, exactly what the rogue sequence of characters is. So now anyone that wants a bit of "fun" can mess up all their friends i thingy devices. Pure and utter genius on all levels. NOT. [/QUOTE]
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