gizmodo.com — Piergiorgio Zambrini, the author of the ZiPhone unlocking tool, has allegedly come up with a way to crash iPhones remotely via a simple video. By playing the video, an iPhone would shut itself down, and iPods and Apple computers are also vulnerable.
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doshomikNov 5, 2008
Why you need to play any malicious video to crash the iPhone, when you've Safari to crash it anytime.
Closed AccountNov 5, 2008
Hell, I can crash my iphone just by visiting any number of broken websites. And as far as this video thing goes, there's a bit of misleading information. It does *not* work on OS X, only in the iphone/ipod os (which is sort of like a retarded little sister who's really good at singing). The reason it works on your retarded little sister is that her kernel runs datastreams in kernel space in order to speed things up on slow hardware. OS X doesn't need to do that, and runs them in much more secure userspace.
matt_rubinNov 5, 2008
don't forget its also a phone and a internet communications device!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
marksands07Nov 5, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/Crashing_The_iPhone">http://digg.com/apple/Crashing_The_iPhone</a>
hiroNov 5, 2008
Only once every 3 days?? Are you using it, I get 4 or 5 a day, depending on how much I use Safari
dev0nullNov 5, 2008
Anyone can report bugs to Apple via bugreport.apple.com. I find that they fix their bugs at least as fast as any other large organization.
gllopcNov 5, 2008
"Darwin is an open source POSIX[citation needed] compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NEXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and other free software projects."<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_sys ...</a>I'll say it isn't BSD if you want to say that in the exact definition. *But*, it's Unix based, which makes svensko's argument moot.
mrbitchNov 6, 2008
@aolshove RE: " I crash whenever I drive and watch iPhone videos, does that count? "Yes, that DOES count, oh YES it DOES.
Closed AccountNov 6, 2008
I don't need a fancy video to crash my iPhone. Looking at a simple webpage in Safari will suffice.
gettothechoppaJun 6, 2009
No kidding. Even profile pictures are enough to crash my iPhone: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/d1t4ia">http://digg.com/d1t4ia</a>