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iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

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Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#101
post #78

What about older 32 bit iOS devices that can't be updated past iOS 10? Will they issue an update for them or do you just have to turn off iMessage? Still have a perfectly functional Series 4 iPad

Can anyone confirm that older iOS devices are affected as well or was this introduced at a later point?

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#103
post #7

This is fixed in iOS 12.3 [1] and macOS 10.14.5 [2], both released on May 13th. As Natalie noted on the ticket, turning off iMessage will also prevent the bug. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210118 [2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210119

Turning off iMessage to prevent the bug is like turning off a car to prevent to consume petrol.. what a solution

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#104
post #7

This is fixed in iOS 12.3 [1] and macOS 10.14.5 [2], both released on May 13th. As Natalie noted on the ticket, turning off iMessage will also prevent the bug. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210118 [2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210119

Turning off iMessage to prevent the bug is like turning off a car to prevent to consume petrol.. what a solution

Where I live nobody uses iMessage so this sounds like a good workaround :P (Yes yes I know it’s been patched already...)

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Still, it's not so bad as the Windows XP-7 epoch, when eldritch nightmares walked the land. You are speaking like an Apple fanboy. Days of XP are in the past and even Windows 7/Windows 2008 fairs better than Apple OSX and iOS. This is especially bad as apple sells a false sense of security when they fail to build even the basics correctly. Their walled garden is paved with expensive ibricks. Edit: Those who think I…

Even now, I don't think any of macOS's recent failings are as bad as the Windows 10 update that deleted user documents [0], or all the official spyware and adware in the only operating system where you have to pay to even customize your wallpaper. As for mobile, does anybody remember hearing of any iOS cross-app malware ("viruses") in the decade since it launched? I think that's pretty amazing. [0] https://www.google…

Apple sells privacy and security so they should live up to the standards they have set for themselves[1].

They were actively misleading peoplebby running advertisements claiming MACs don't get virueses[2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/21/new-crit...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2012/06/mac-viruses/

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#106
post #78

What about older 32 bit iOS devices that can't be updated past iOS 10? Will they issue an update for them or do you just have to turn off iMessage? Still have a perfectly functional Series 4 iPad

Don't remote root exploits (jailbreaks) exists for those devices? Then it's basically game over if anyone want anything already.

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#107

Can this be avoided by disabling iMessage notifications? > The calling method then calls -[IMBalloonPluginDataSource _replaceHandleWithContactNameInString:] which calls im_handleIdentifiers on the 'NSString' which is really an NSNumber, which throws an exception as the selector does not exist in that class. Looks like they need to move more of their stuff to Swift to reduce snarfles like this. Stories like these (thi…

> Still, it's not so bad as the Windows XP-7 epoch, when eldritch nightmares walked the land. You are speaking like an Apple fanboy. Days of XP are in the past and even Windows 7/Windows 2008 fairs better than Apple OSX and iOS. This is especially bad as apple sells a false sense of security when they fail to build even the basics correctly. Their walled garden is paved with expensive ibricks. Edit: Those who think I…

There are too many of apple fanboys to find rational arguments against apple. That doesn't make them good at anything other than marketing.

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#108

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That's like saying that with a faulty hard drive you can only lose data if you're not backing it up.

Close, but imprecise. I’m saying two things: You can lose data with a faulty hard drive if your backup is silently corrupted and you don’t realize it. That’s not a risk here, as long as before restoring from backup you upgrade the phone OS to patch the bug. Also, you can lose data with a faulty hard drive if you have no backup. Rooters especially will care about these points since they typically cannot restore from b…

Actually, if an iCloud erase works, it should be possible for Jailbreakers to recover their phones without updating.

Mind, they will still loose data, including some Jailbreak stuff that isn't included in iTunes backups.

Re: iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even now, I don't think any of macOS's recent failings are as bad as the Windows 10 update that deleted user documents [0], or all the official spyware and adware in the only operating system where you have to pay to even customize your wallpaper. As for mobile, does anybody remember hearing of any iOS cross-app malware ("viruses") in the decade since it launched? I think that's pretty amazing. [0] https://www.google…

Apple sells privacy and security so they should live up to the standards they have set for themselves[1]. They were actively misleading peoplebby running advertisements claiming MACs don't get virueses[2]. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/21/new-crit... [2] https://www.wired.com/2012/06/mac-viruses/

Your second link is an article from 2012 that says Apple stopped saying Macs can’t get viruses...
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