If you cherish your
smartphone please don’t open this link as it can crash your smartphone
under few seconds. This annoying link is going round very fast on social
media and it is capable of bringing down any smartphone, iPhone
inclusinve according to the media.
According to News worldindian, the name
of the link is ‘crashsafari.com’. It crashes browsers like Google Chrome
and Safari by writing a thousand of unexpected character or line of
code in your browser address bar and before you know it, it will
exhaust your device memory,
The said attack is just four lines of
code that crashes almost everything on your device and or reboot your
phone and thus causes the phone to crash. It was even reported that the
link also work against desktop browsers.
It leverages HTML5’s history.pushState,
which is a JavaScript function used by most single page apps to update
their address bar, and the fact still remains that the underlying page
you are view might not change.
The link is being shared on social media
with a shorten URL to form a kind of decoy for people to opening it and
caused their browser not responding unless the device reboot
completely, the report said.
Please share this with your friend so that they will not fall victim of this.
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