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'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A new "text bomb" affecting Apple's iPhone and Mac computers has been discovered. Abraham Masri, a software developer, tweeted about the flaw which typically causes an iPhone to crash and in some cases restart. Simply sending a message containing a link which pointed to Mr Masri's code on programming site GitHub would be enough to activate the bug -- even if the recipient did not click the link itself. Mr Masri said he "always reports bugs" before releasing them. Apple has not yet commented on the issue. On a Mac, the bug reportedly makes the Safari browser crash, and causes other slowdowns. Security expert Graham Cluley wrote on his blog that the bug does not present anything to be particularly worried about -- it's merely very annoying. After the link did the rounds on social media, Mr Masri removed the code from GitHub, therefore disabling the "attack" unless someone was to replicate the code elsewhere.
Apple's got a real general malaise problem, lately. The fix is likely to replace the CEO and possibly other high-up executives because they've focused too much on other crap, and not on the core-business. If Tim Cook, (for example,) wants to be the CEO of a watch company, or a headphone company, let him go do that.
Apple is a computer company, even if they removed the word "computer" from their name. Of course this is merely my opinion, but I'll tell you this for sure: unless and until Apple shapes up its act, I am not buying any more Apple products, or products that only work with Apple products. If it comes to pass that I need a new computer and/or cellphone before Apple pulls its corporate head out of its corporate ass, I will switch to something else. (Case in point, I recently obtained an old MacBook that Apple has decided is obsolete, and put GNU/Linux on it, in preparation for doing the same with my iMac, which once I don't need it for my iPhone anymore, that will be it, and I will unApplify my life. I'll probably get a dumb-phone, and go back to the days when I navigated for myself, etc., and not rely on the increasingly unreliable kludgey crap coming from Apple nowadays.
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