Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit

Andy Smith writes: The annoying App Store redirect issue has blighted iPhone users for years, but now there's a new annoyance and it's already being exploited: Visit a web page on your iPhone and any advertiser can automatically open your messages app and create a new text message with the recipient and message already filled in. We can only hope they don't figure out how to automatically send the message, although you can bet they're trying.

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[Grishnakh]

Maybe, but I don't really see the problem here. This is the price you pay for using Apple products. You can't even install a different browser like Firefox on Apple's iCrap devices because they won't allow anything that doesn't use their own WebKit renderer, so everything is going to be stuck with whatever vulnerabilities that the regular Apple browser has.

Android has its issues to be sure, but at least you're allowed to install whatever browser you want on an Android device. So if the built-in one sucks, just install Firefox.