It's the bomb... (not Japan related)

[Taro Toporific]

It's the bomb...

a TEXT BOMB, grrr.

For you folks using iOS on your iPhone/iPad, or MacOS on your whatever machine,
today a few "fun-loving" folks are adding a text bomb---single Indian Unicode character that will crash almost any Mac, iOS or Apple Watch app. techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/

magic-character.png

Super annoying...but the crash is not a big deal unless you have an iWatch.
The text bomb just forces you log in from your spare Linux/Windoz/virtual machine and remove the offending character from your email or use a browser in a non-Apple environment. The patch ought be be coming in a few days.

(Yep, I got bombed by this a couple of times today, saaaaa. )

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UPDATE:
The "magic character" also seems to to bomb WiFi network names, inside Uber profiles, Slack, Mail, Messages, Facebook, Instagram, Chrome and bunch of other serious stuff.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... -crash-ios
The character is from Telugu, a south-Indian language. Luckily, even in Telugu the use of the character is odd like Japanese ヲ is fairly uncommon in everyday language.

[legion]

Shame it isn't ॐ

That would be trippy