This particular text locks iphone users out of their messaging app if sent via text message. I think its some sort of malformed unicode, but in any case this is not ok apple.<p>لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
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Seems to be an overflow buffer attack that predominantly effects 5s users.<p>via u/MrBnF <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/eli5_how_that_text_you_can_send_to_friends_turns/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/37edde/el...</a>
More discussion about the possible cause in another Reddit thread: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text...</a><p>I don't think it's a buffer overflow attack. Seems to be something wrong with rendering Arabic text when a message is shortened.