Security Loophole: Simple Text Message Can Cause iPhone To Crash
By Dominic Kelly - Opposing Views
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A Reddit thread has exposed an iPhone security bug that allows a simple text message sequence to shut down one’s phone.
The recently discovered security vulnerability has many iPhone users worried that their phones will be easily manipulated. If one sends the particular string of text to an iPhone user, the phone itself will, in most cases, automatically shut down.
On Tuesday night, Twitter users we sharing that their phones were being shut off by friends who sent them the text message, or that they had been nonstop sending the text to friends in order to mess with them.
“Next time someone with an iPhone pisses me off, I'm going to send them that effective power text,” one Twitter user wrote.
“And….stuff like this is why I’m leaving Apple for good,” another user wrote on The Blaze. “Good bye, and good riddance!”
Some commenters claim that their phones haven’t shut off after receiving the text message, but tons of others seem to have experienced the issue firsthand.
So far, it doesn’t appear that Apple has fixed the bug.
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