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Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by genewitch on Monday April 28, 2025 @04:40AM (#43819007)
On AOL in chatrooms you could play sounds, so if you sent S{/con/con As the sound, you could crash anyone on windows that hadn't shut off user sounds.

My memory is a bit hazy and I don't want to look up the exact sequence, but that's close enough.

Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by genewitch on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:52AM (#43843906)
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.