How "Crash Safari" Reboots Your Phone
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Publicado 2016-01-25
And yes, I did have to put this video together really quickly. Thank you SO MUCH to the wonderful Matthew Walster, @dotwaffle on Twitter, who not only found me somewhere to film at short notice but also volunteered to hold the camera. I am massively grateful to him -- thank you!
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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"JOURNALISM!" -Tom Scott, 2016
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Love these videos about computer exploits :-)
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"Each browser tab is a seperate process on your machine"... THATS why there's so much going on in my task manager, thanks...
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Tom: "I'm just as bad as them, using this for clickbait." Also Tom: doesn't use exaggerated titles, explains the info properly, and actually provides an interesting analysis of the code and why it happens instead of just reporting that it happens
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Is the camera slightly moving around or am I going crazy?
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that's simple... I still have the iPad 1, I can't use safari without it crashing.
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The fact that it crashes due to memory exhaustion is not really a huge problem. It's annoying but it happens. However, the fact that memory exhaustion in an application (Safari) crashes the whole operating system is a huge, enormous bug in memory management of that operating system. And indication that Safari has some strange privileges that no application should have
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1:36, begging to be a GIF
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I fell for the trick in 2016 when I was discussing Crash Bandicoot in a chat room, saw someone post a link to Crash Safari, and thought it might be Crash Bandicoot related so I clicked it which caused every tab and window to crash. The person that linked it got banned for it. I was the only one that fell for the trick.
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Does Tom Scott own like 50 red T-shirts?
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So if I set this as the home page on my friend's iPhone...
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At least this is a fairly benign way to make the issue exceedingly apparent, rather than a more malicious use of it.
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"JOURNALISM!" I hear you my friend. While the web has increased information sharing in a way we could never imagine it's also destroyed journalistic integrity in the process. It's no longer about facts, it's about clicks and ad revenue.
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i love how when some talks about Apple fixing a bug it's always "maybe they will, maybe they won't"
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I know you were probably joking at the end ("...or YouTube videos about it...Sorry") but I just wanted to state that I don't think that having somebody with technical understanding explain a 'viral' technical issue in fairly significant depth (at least compared to 99.9% of 'news' coverage) is an instance of hopping on the bandwagon of clickbai- pseudo-news :)
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I'm off to maliciously crash the phones of my friends.
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You always explain stuff simply but not treat us like idiots. Even being in the computer and electronics field I always learn something. Keep it up and thank you.
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I like how you build a narrative for these videos. It makes them more entertaining than just plainly explaining how the code works.
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I like how Tom made a whole video about how it’s impossible for a computer to detect if a piece of code has an infinite loop then just casually slips in “safari checks to see if there’s an infinite loop and stops loading the page”
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Thanks to YouTube again for giving me a video about a software vulnerability not present anymore.
