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The Night Zombie Smartphones Took Down 911

6 points by robbiet480 10y ago

mrb 10y ago
Same article without paywall: http://www.todayevery.com/share/Syx3xYzv5e?hint=SB12580892754490123402004582622002195546624?responsive=y/articles http://www.todayevery.com/share/Syx3xYzv5e?hint=SB1258089275... "The bug uses <A HREF=”tel:+911″>Call now</A> link parsed in Safari or other browsers to make the iPhone make repeated calls to 911. The tricks discovered by Mulliner included placing a telephone URL in an IFRAME, using a phone number as the target of a web page refresh or redirect, and altering the URL of an already-loaded page using JavaScript. " Source: https://www.techworm.net/2016/11/ios-911-bug-forces-iphones-repeatedly-call-911.html https://www.techworm.net/2016/11/ios-911-bug-forces-iphones-... Technical bug description: https://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2009/06/msg00190.html https://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2009/06/msg001...
mst 10y ago
Loginwalled now, even bouncing via google from an incognito window.