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Temporarily remove bad characters from posts on iOS Client #323

Closed elaine-jackson closed 6 years ago

elaine-jackson commented 6 years ago

As the developers may or not know there is a character which can crash and brick iOS devices. See: https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/15/indian-character-crashes-ios-11-2-5-may-require-full-device-restore/ until Apple releases an update when requesting data from the API from an iOS Client the character should be stripped from the retrieved data before sending to the client. Thoughts?

DFoxinator commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. We actually implemented this a few days ago. Some info here: https://devrant.com/rants/1215973/who-of-you-posted-that-telugu-character-that-crashes-the-iphone-thank-you-very-m

elaine-jackson commented 6 years ago

@DFoxinator Thanks, I've literally removed every social app from my phone but I figured since devrant is independently developed I'd give you guys a chance to hotpatch first :)

Thanks again for protecting your users, I've had to heavily reduce attack surface on my devices, this bug has been public for more than a week, having to use anything internet related in a Linux VM on macOS and simply not use social sites on my iPhone is unacceptable! Not your fault but thanks for protecting us at least :/