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Re:New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text by goda90 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:31AM (#13291408)
A robotic auto-dialer could fix that. Perhaps an app on a jailbroken phone could inject numbers into the input field?
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Re:New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text by throwanem on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:53AM (#13291497)
It'd be easier to automate the Messages app on an OS X device.

Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale.

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Re:New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text by Fnoord on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:04AM (#13291551)
> Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale.

Apple IDs can be easily remade. ProductIDs can be faked on a Hackintosh.

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Re:New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text by natch on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:29PM (#13292671)
The part you missed was: "at any sort of scale."

I'm pretty sure you would encounter ever-increasing levels of countermeasures as you tried more and more tricks at scale.

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Re:New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text by natch on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:31PM (#13292690)
But users will just update to the latest version if a few days, and then the juvenile fun will be over.
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