News - Simple Arabic text string instantly crashes OS X 10.8 and iOS 6 apps

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However new OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 beta are not affected by the 'unicode of death'.

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Unicode is... a bit fiddly. So I guess it's no surprise that over the years I've seen loads of bits of software get patched to deal with Unicode issues (PHP, I'm looking at you particularly sternly).

Am I having some deja vu here, or is this an old bug?

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The Mac Observer recommends Mac and iDevice users to; not open web pages and documents containing the string

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Not trying to poke fun or anything, but how are you supposed to know if a web page or document contains the "string of iDeath" until you actually open it?

I wouldn't think that this'll remain unpatched long.

Yeah, that advice make me chuckle.

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Originally Posted by crossy

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The Mac Observer recommends Mac and iDevice users to; not open web pages and documents containing the string

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Not trying to poke fun or anything, but how are you supposed to know if a web page or document contains the "string of iDeath" until you actually open it?

I wouldn't think that this'll remain unpatched long.

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lets hope it is patched faster than flashback...

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

Am I having some deja vu here, or is this an old bug?

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Wp7 had a similar bug and before that ios3 had one which allowed you to take control of non jail break devices via SMS

Think I might text that link to some mates on iPoo's :P

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Originally Posted by LeetyMcLeet

Think I might text that link to some mates on iPoo's :P

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Reckon the Mac fanboy trolls will be tweeting, and spamming this everywhere for kicks n' jollies. I wonder if anyone on the relevant forums has made it their new signature yet?

Edit - more amusingly, I wonder how many news outlets/blogs, if any, are dumb enough to (not deliberately)post the actual string in their article?