Comment by Kikawala
7 years ago
Not just simple text, it's UTF-8. Rendering these UTF-8 "text bombs" seems to DoS several applications. This particular one crashes the messages app in iOS, crashes the tab in Chrome, and locks up FireFox. It also crashes several text editors which support UTF-8. Opens quickly in notepad, but takes several minutes in wordpad and it very laggy when scrolling.
> crashes the tab in Chrome, and locks up FireFox
Both of which are WebKit wrappers on iOS.
References to WordPad and notepad suggest they were not running Chrome or Firefox on iOS.