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A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot
DavidGilbert99 writes with news that a bug in iOS has made it so anyone can crash an iPhone by simply sending it a text message containing certain characters. "When the text message is displayed by a banner alert or notification on the lockscreen, the system attempts to abbreviate the text with an ellipsis. If the ellipsis is placed in the middle of a set of non-Latin script characters, including Arabic, Marathi and Chinese, it causes the system to crash and the phone to reboot." The text string is specific enough that it's unlikely to happen by accident, and users can disable text notification banners to protect themselves from being affected. However, if a user receives the crash-inducing text, they won't be able to access the Messages app without causing another crash. A similar bug crashed applications in OS X a few years ago.
it's a parsing bug, what difference would sanitizing user input make...
Sanitize a language people use for actual communication? The text shouldn't have to change. This is a case of bad coding and nothing more.
It wouldn't be a parsing bug if the parser sanitized its input.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Why? One big reason...
What percentage of current-generation Android phones will be able to get the next 2-3 major releases of the OS?
5-10% ?
What percentage of current-generation iPhones will be able to get the next 2-3 major releases?
~100%.
The apple phone does everything I need it to, and because of OS fragmentation on the Android side, third party apps are typically better / more stable. (Exceptions always exist, of course.)
I'm quite happy to hear arguments to the contrary, but my broad-brush perspective is that while Apple's ecosystem is a walled garden, Android's ecosystem is the wild west.
I'm willing to accept a garden with walls if it means I don't have to constantly worry about what unpatched vulnerability is ripe for exploitation on my phone.
Never. Ever. Do. That. Again.
Or I will mark you as a troll if I have mod points. And frankly, I hope somebody does that to this one.
If you're going to post an informative link from Wikipedia, go straight to Wikipedia; not that wikiwand crap. Using that link to a site pushing a formatting extension that changes the way wikipedia's UI format looks is trolling for users to hijack with a MitM attack. This is fucking /. The general population knows better than to install random extensions from unverified sources. Go pedal your crapware on reddit.