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1. Orange+bh[view] [source] 2018-01-18 16:53:57
>>Harvey+(OP)
Come to think of it, I believe I've heard of multiple "making the device render this text causes a crash" bugs for Apple devices, but never on any other platforms. Is this type of bug just that much more common on Apple devices, or are there plenty of other cases out there that I just don't know about?
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2. Kikawa+4k[view] [source] 2018-01-18 17:10:13
>>Orange+bh
Not just simple text, it's UTF-8. Rendering these UTF-8 "text bombs" seems to DoS several applications. This particular one crashes the messages app in iOS, crashes the tab in Chrome, and locks up FireFox. It also crashes several text editors which support UTF-8. Opens quickly in notepad, but takes several minutes in wordpad and it very laggy when scrolling.
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