tuaw.com - 11/4/2008
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Ziphone creator Piergiorgio Zambrini has discovered a bug with the iPhone that causes the phone to crash when it starts to play a specially-created video. Forbes.com recorded a demonstration.
The bug apparently affects the audio track of the video, which takes down the iPhone operating ...
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News Roundup for November the 4th
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... Italian premo-hacker Piergiorgio Zambrini has been at it again, this time managing to crash the iPhone. (Hey, I’m always getting Mobile Safari to crash. Does that make me 1337?) Zambrini’s secret is apparently a special video with a particularly malicious audio track. Unconfirmed reports suggest it’s Mariah Carey’s Glitter. ...
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