While many bugs are comparatively benign , often getting patch before the exploiter knows anything is wrong , thelatest plague to strike Apple devicesis already wreaking havoc on internet .
The issue , which has become do it as the Telugu bug , give people the power to doss a all-embracing range of iPhone , Mac , and iPad apps just by send off a exclusive persona from thethird most spoken languagein India .
To help deal the situation , Applesays its already working on a patchthat will set the bug , which should arrive in the form of an intermediary update before iOS 11.3 ( which is currently in beta ) gets officially released .
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However , in the meantime , some more average - game drug user have take to using the Telugu symbol to “ bombard ” other people devices . Motherboardhas report that by tote up the symbol to a substance abuser ’s Twitter name , you could crash the iOS Twitter app simply by liking someone ’s tweet . And while it ’s potential to treat the government issue by uninstalling and reinstalling the Twitter app , there ’s not much stopping the same person from liking another tweet and causing the app to go haywire again .
Others have get even more circuitous , such as a security researcher who append the symbolization to his Uber handle , which would gate-crash the app anytime a driver with an iPhone attempt to pick them up . And then there ’s Darren Martyn , who posted avideo on Twitterwhere he crash people ’s Mac networking app after he added the Telugu symbolization to the name of a Wi - Fi internet .
While this might sound like people are just using the bug to have a fleck of fun , it ’s still pretty shocking to see how a seemingly innocuous bug is accept such a bad effect on the gazillion of people with Apple gimmick . It ’s a good matter Apple recentlydecided to detain new features in iOS 12to concentrate fixing bugs in iOS . Though at this point , you have to wonder if that determination has n’t come a moment too latterly .
[ Motherboard ]
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