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Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit

Posted by timothy on from the you-rang? dept.

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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  1. Not clicking that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Visit a web page on your iPhone and any advertiser can automatically open your messages app

    You'll forgive me if I dont click that