Curious date bug can brick your iPhone pretty badly
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- Mkx
- 17 Feb 2016
Anonymous, 16 Feb 2016I have tried it. nothing happened. It just showed jan 1, 19... moreFunny thing is, 4chan made a fake ad to "hidden feature" which if set your phone to that date, you'll get special old MACINTOSH skin for your phone.
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- vx{
- 16 Feb 2016
I have tried it. nothing happened. It just showed jan 1, 1970 after restart.
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- IV8
- 16 Feb 2016
KingofDogstyle, 15 Feb 2016W...Why would you even WANT to set the phone time back to 0... moreConsider this, most current devices, including the affected Apple tech, rely on NTP servers to automatically set their time and date. If a hacker were to theoretically spoof responses and pose as such a server on a Wi-Fi network, he could potentially kill every current iPhone or iPad on the same network.
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- Anonymous
- vx6
- 15 Feb 2016
AnonD-442781, 13 Feb 2016It's because they don't want you to believe there was a tim... moresomeone needs to give you a high five right now.
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- KingofDogstyle
- vx6
- 15 Feb 2016
W...Why would you even WANT to set the phone time back to 01/01/1970!? Aside from the possibility that'd you'd like to waste some time.
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- NHU
- 15 Feb 2016
How many people honestly feel like "updating" their time to January 1 1970?
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- Iunian
- 0Ur
- 14 Feb 2016
Or buy the tools needed to open the back cover then disconnect the battery and watch on you tube how those guys at iFixIt do the disassembly.
Be a hacker yourself, don't wait for another hacker/s. Come on, void your warranty and be proud of your "new" phone. ;)
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- Dot-WiFi
- bJb
- 14 Feb 2016
Anonymous, 14 Feb 2016iOS has always been buggy and insecure so nothing new.lol... "always"
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- xW$
- 14 Feb 2016
the same thing happens with OSX, the system itself is smooth because of it's animations, but loading an app in both windows and OSX, the Windows one is faster, but instead the system overall, feels slower than OSX (in animations). which is why i have both system on my macbook.
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- Anonymous
- 2Ta
- 14 Feb 2016
AnonD-442781, 13 Feb 2016It's because they don't want you to believe there was a tim... moreLol
You made my day
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- XMF
- 14 Feb 2016
G5 user, 13 Feb 2016false .... if device freeze is lag ... if anymation doesnt ... moreThey can manipulate it by prioritized the resource in animation rather than load the app that's why ios looks smooth but lost to android in loading app
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- 14 Feb 2016
harlekkin, 14 Feb 2016When was the last time you needed to change your phone to t... moreHacker need
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- Ejstrider
- 3@B
- 14 Feb 2016
Some older people might do put the time way back to that year or later becuase they might look for what day is that special moment they had on that year. So CrApple need to do something about it.
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- KS7
- 14 Feb 2016
Eske Rahn, 13 Feb 2016I tried playing with Ios date long time ago, and they are a... moreapplies to 64-bit only
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- Anonymous
- 0fC
- 14 Feb 2016
iOS has always been buggy and insecure so nothing new.
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- harlekkin
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- 14 Feb 2016
Anonymous, 14 Feb 2016I'm pretty sure a lot of idiots will try this and start com... moreWhen was the last time you needed to change your phone to the 1970's, son? Oh, what was that? Never? I thought so.
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- Anonymous
- tue
- 14 Feb 2016
Magician, 14 Feb 2016"I Have A Trick If You Set Your Date To January 1,1970 Some... moreI'm pretty sure a lot of idiots will try this and start complaining about in online later. Just like the Spen of Note5 issue. It only become a thing right after someone posted it online and a bunch of idiots decide to try it. Well, this is exciting to see who really tried it.
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- Magician
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- 14 Feb 2016
"I Have A Trick If You Set Your Date To January 1,1970 Something Magical Will Happen To Your Iphone!"
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- gG3
- 13 Feb 2016
"If a hacker were to theoretically spoof responses and pose as such a server on a Wi-Fi network, he could potentially kill every current iPhone or iPad on the same network."
-no GSMa what have you done TToTT
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