Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone
by genewitch on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:52AM
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https://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/breaches/c...
it was `{S /con/con`; my memory transposed two characters. the {S was the "system message" that AOL chatrooms used to send sounds, so that sequence of characters after a newline made your computer look for that sound. It was cool if everyone was trusted to not do the /con/con, people would have email chains with the audio files on them, like a proto-napster.
My memory is a bit hazy and I don't want to look up the exact sequence, but that's close enough.