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How to Crash the iPhone with a Single Telugu Character

In recent years, Apple has been heavily criticized for the security implications of their market centralization and policy of irreversible operating system updates. Mobile device users are strongly pressured to install packaged iOS upgrades that cannot be rolled back. While this practice greatly increases security for most users, there is an inherent danger to this centralization. Every flaw or weakness leaves over 100 million Apple device users vulnerable to exploitation for illegal purposes. The most recent iPhone bug (CVE-2018-4124) has been wreaking havoc due to unexpected behavior when the operating system attempts to display a particular Indian character from the Telugu language. Any application that attempts to display the character on an iOS device crashes instantly, and cannot recover until the offending character is removed. The entire device crashes and restarts if the character triggers the bug in a component of the operating system, such as Sp