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The question I have is the issues around crashing a device via texts[1]. Was that part of this scheme? Was it put in there on purpose?

1. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/55893/20150527/one-text-me...




That's doubtful, 'effective power' (incidentally that bit of the text was completely arbitrary) was (seemingly) a hard crash caused by an error in the text shortening for the banner notification pop down. Tom Scott has a good speculation video on what might be going on that seems pretty sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLMSllzoLA




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