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Crazy way to brick an iPhone

jonsie
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Read this earlier....

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/setting-the-date-to-1-january-1970-will-brick-your...

Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

Date bug will prevent 64-bit iOS devices from booting up, rendering them inoperable even through fail-safe restore methods using iTunes

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adamtemp64
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Thanks for sharing 

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Ridiculous !
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I reckon this is a marketing ploy. Brick your iphones... and go and buy a new one....Happy Dance

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Now that it's out there, some idiot will undoubtedly try it just to see if it's true.Good IdeaBang

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Won't be me @Bambino slight_smile
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Some friend ?
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It is all to do with UNIX as all UNIX time starts from that date and ends in 2038 so a day after 2038 same issue looks like a real year 2000 bug 

 

(source various posts about it)

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