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Xatolos@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone | TechCrunch

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Xatolos@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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A bug in the iPhone makes it crash just by typing four characters.
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      This is not a kernel panic and associated reboot. It simply crashes the SpringBoard, which is kinda like the “desktop environment” of iOS. It’s responsible for the homescreen, and calls other processes like the window server. It’s a normal userspace process, not related to the kernel at all.

      Edit: Sorry I actually meant to link to this wiki page https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki//System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app

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      Yeah, since the last character can be anything, it certainly seems JSON-related. If it wasn’t, SQL could be on the table (“”::<input> is how you convert types).

      Good eye. I find it incredibly odd that JSON would be involved in any way here, but that does seem like a logical idea.

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