A Text Message Can Crash Your iOS Device

A few months ago, I came across a video that showed how to crash an iOS device via a video link. Now the same site is back telling you that there’s an exploit that will crash a iOS device. Here is the video:

The previous exploit was fixed by Apple in iOS 10.2. One can hope that iOS 10.2.1 which is still in beta at the moment addresses this. In the meantime, I have to wonder if this has to do with the fact that people have way too much time on their hands, or is there an unpatched exploit in iOS that makes these sorts of things possible?

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