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"The bad guy creates a short video, hides the malware inside it and texts it to your number. " How can you "text" a video? Texting uses.... text. The clue is i
by jbb555 11y ago
"The bad guy creates a short video, hides the malware inside it and texts it to your number. "
How can you "text" a video? Texting uses.... text. The clue is in the name.
Not bothering to read the rest of the article.
- veeti 11y agoEver heard of MMS?
- elaus 11y agoThe acronym even says it: it's not a text message, it's multimedia. So the news seems to be about flaws in MMS handling, not SMS/text messages.
- joshuapants 11y agoYou're splitting hairs here, common usage of "texting" includes sending pictures, video, and audio.
- jacquesm 11y agoHe's not splitting hairs, he's probably just from 'somewhere else'. Here where I live (NL) texting someone means SMS, 'apping' someone is used for whatsapp and MMS is used for the rest.
- JosephRedfern 11y agoPerhaps you should read the rest of the article. You might learn something.
- daigoba66 11y agoMMS is colloquially known as texting, just as is SMS.
- dragonwriter 11y agoAnd, on most devices, there's no UI distinction between the two in use, MMS vs SMS is just a distinction the phone makes for messages by content.
- soylentcola 11y agoAdditionally, when someone using a non-standard messaging app (like whatever the default iOS app is), sends a message to my Android phone, it doesn't come through as an SMS but rather as an "attachment" to an MMS message.
- kolev 11y agoIt's known as "picture messaging".
- userbinator 11y agoPlease do bother to read the rest of the article. This is similar to sending malicious attachments with an email (which is just "text", after all) which the user's email client opens automatically.
- antillean 11y agoWord. I don't think I've ever heard/seen MMS referred to as "texting". Until I read the clarifications in response to this comment, this article made absolutely no sense to me.
- dang 11y agoPerhaps "texting" has different meanings in different regions? This feels like a cross-cultural glitch to me. Those happen on HN more often than people realize.
- Dylan16807 11y agoConfusion and disagreement with the wording is valid. Snootily declaring "not bothering to read the rest", though...