This is how Apple has fulminated the boy who has trolleado to the emergency services of an entire country

This Monday Apple released the update iOS 10.3, which undoubtedly constitutes the improvement in the most successful iOS operating system to date: because it allows us to free space , because it makes our devices go faster than ever and also because it is the most Safe And is that not only has not gotten a single bug during its first few days but also with it Apple has managed to load a pen to a boy who has put in check the emergency services of an entire country , specifically The most powerful in the world: the United States.

And is that the best developers usually come from lugubrious rooms where they spend their teens flipping. This is the case of an 18-year-old hacker from Arizona who got something incredible - because of the technological feat itself and the danger it posed - that the iPhone would loop 911 , the US emergency telephone number to contact With police, fire and ambulance.

This problem was detected in October, when the young man discovered the vulnerability and published the code that caused chaos on the internet , spreading the problem like gunpowder. The code itself allowed that when clicking on a text message or a certain web, there would be continuous calls to 911.

Immediately the boy was discovered and crowded, but the problem was still on the table, imagine the chaos that is a concrete model of smartphone - the iPhone, one of the best sellers - call incessantly to emergencies, collapsing and avoiding this way That real critical situations are adequately addressed. When the arrest occurred, in minutes it had already been called more than 100 times .

With the launch of iOS 10.3, Apple developed a new way to manage JavaScript that among other things avoided popups and Safari blocking because of popup windows, but also implemented the solution for this critical bug. And is that with iOS 10.3, iPhone always require a second confirmation before making automatic calls using that new method, this way it is eliminated suddenly as similar bugs happen again.

Via | MacRumors