Emerging and Disruptive Technology  

This morning, one of my colleagues received an iMessage text from one of his friends with the following content: “ effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗 “ Little did he know that receiving this text would shut down his iPhone. I mean…come on…who’s to tell that something as simple as a text message can have such consequences? He obviously panicked and thought it was some sort of security breach. I was the only security nerd (really?) he knew I guess because he immediately forwarded the text over to me and caused my iPhone to shut down haha. Now with my curiosity aroused, I definitely had to check what was going on. Having been in the industry for so long, I knew the iPhone was not that easily prone to breaches and took a closer look at the message content,  Analyzing the bits, hexes and everything and anything,  I turned to our dear friend Google and viola! It looks like this text message has been doing the rounds quite a bit. This looks like iOS8 bug i