Article 3TY0Q Chinese iPhones crash when users try to type Taiwanese flag characters

Chinese iPhones crash when users try to type Taiwanese flag characters

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Cory Doctorow
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A now-fixed bug in Ios caused Chinese-localized Iphones to reboot any time the user tried to enter the character combination for a Taiwanese flag or the word "Taiwan"; the bug was caused by Apple's China-only censorship and surveillance software. (more")

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