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I'm only going to link the article. Which is safe btw.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-text-that-will-crash-almost-any-mac-iphone-or-ipad
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Yet....
warrior1
(12,325 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)It sounds false. I checked Snopes, but couldn't find anything on this.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)is a bitmap/screenshot, not actual text, so it wouldn't be a problem.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)If I had kids of driving age, I'd make them play this daily for a week before being allowed to drive.
http://holdenlink.com/project/sms-racing/
Islandurp
(188 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I am not feeling lucky, so will leave it to others to experiment.
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Prism
(5,815 posts)I'm posting this on my PC. Not sure if your pasting is the culprit, but this thread - and only this thread - will now kill my iphone's browser when I open it.
Just FYI.
Billy Love
(117 posts)No problem.
Crashes on some phones but not all.
Prism
(5,815 posts)So apparently it does crash some things.
Lars39
(26,116 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)I'm so far behind on these that I am upwilling to catch up, don't like what a lot of the updates do, and am not planning to intall 'Maverick' either.
Weird, too, that this is supposed to be a hacking scheme out of Syria. Just concerned if I keep on googling 'syria' I'll get into trouble here.
TIA.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I haven't opened the actual characters described in the article.
And, wisely, the article only shows a jpeg of the string of characters, not the characters themselves.
As curious as I am to find out if it's true, I'm not going to risk this iMac or my iPad or phone to prove them right or wrong!
I think you'll be OK as long as you don't look for the malevolent characters.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Non-English or mixed language websites?
Otherwise there are plenty of malevolent characters in the world, haha.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)How clever and not nice of someone to think of it...
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)A fanboy/shill will be along shortly to explain.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Essentially, a string of nonsensical Unicode text consisting of a mashup of arabic characters has been discovered that crashes Macs, iPhones & iPads. Androids & PCs are unaffected.
Billy Love
(117 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)Why does it read like an ad to upgrade your OS, or buy Firefox?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Anyone who tells you that Macs do not suffer the same slow-downs and lock ups that PCs do is out of their mind.
MissB
(15,812 posts)But it works fine for my iPad mini.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)How can this be?
dkf
(37,305 posts)Thought it was okay...then it froze.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Android is a thousand times better.