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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

There used to be this thing going around on pre-smartphone phones (via Bluetooth, I assume) that showed a pocket watch closing and when it was fully closed, the phone shut down. We all thought it was hilarious to send it to as many people as possible and watch them panic. I don't even know what format it was to look like a normal gif or video and do that. I certainly didn't even care back then.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

My guess is it was an actual gif that exploited some flaw in how the OS handled gifs and thus was able to execute code.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

That would make sense. Thanks for coming up with an explanation. I did wonder when I thought about this earlier.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Or Bloover(?) The Bluetooth hacking app that could copy someone's texts and call log

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