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iPhone/mac bug- plain text crash !!!

Anyone running ios7 or Mavericks is fine, the rest of the AppleVerse is in or a whole heap of pain.

A Unicode string (read:text) has been discovered that will crash all other Apple devices.

Even changing the name of your router will crash apple devices

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/bug-in-apples-coretext-allows-specific-string-of-characters-to-crash-ios-6-os-x-10-8-apps/

the article is safe to read but the following link on the same page will crash your iDevice

http://doesmyphonecrash.tumblr.com/
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