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Title: News: Apple fixed 911 call bug with iOS 10.3 update
Post by: HCK on April 03, 2017, 04:05:27 pm
News: Apple fixed 911 call bug with iOS 10.3 update

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               Apple’s iOS 10.3 update has solved a vulnerability that allowed iPhones to be tricked into repeatedly dialing 911, The Wall Street Journal reports. Meetkumar Desai was arrested last fall after designing the code, but a link to the code that went viral on Twitter led to pranks causing 911 operators in more than a dozen states to be overwhelmed by accidental 911 calls. The code relied on an iPhone feature that allowed users to place a call simply…

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