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An experiment has shown that when an iPhone connects to a Wi-Fi that has a strange SSID name, it disables wireless until network settings reset, according to Threat Post.
A reverse engineer stumbled upon an oddly named personal wireless network and revealed that he had permanently wrecked his iPhone’s Wi-Fi. This finding is causing unease among iPhone owners, as it may lead to exploitation of the bug.
After joining my personal WiFi with the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n”, my iPhone permanently disabled it’s WiFi functionality. Neither rebooting nor changing SSID fixes it :~) pic.twitter.com/2eue90JFu3
— Carl Schou (@vm_call) June 18, 2021
The error was not permanent, and the reverse engineer managed to get the netwo…
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