iPhone crashing ‘prank’ video bug and our uncertain security future
There is a video circulating online that when played once can temporarily stop your iPhone or iPad from working. The only way to get affected devices working again is to run a hard reset to bring them back to life.
Honey trap
The video consists of a seemingly innocuous .mp4 clip. It shows someone standing by a bed with the words 'Honey' written across the screen. It seems to have originated from the Sina Weibo-backed video-sharing app Miaopai. It is now being distributed through social networks, forums and elsewhere.
What happens when you play the clip is that your iPhone will continue to work normally for a minute or two, before becoming increasingly sluggish until it eventually stops working. The problem seems to impact all current iPhones back to iOS 5.
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