Warning, this site is going to crash all smartphones! – 01net.com

Cécile
BOLESSE

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Crashsafari.com is the site where it should not go. Not because its content is uninteresting or because it is dangerous, but because it will inevitably crash the browser and smartphone on which it was launched.

The first to be affected by this “bug” is, not surprisingly given the name of the site, Safari users on iPhone or iPad. But as Android smartphone owners can also fall victim to this hoax and PC users.

Behind this link is hiding in fact a JavaScript that launches an API, which starts to turn up endless crash browser and smartphone. On PC, the crash only concerns the browser and an ironic message asking what you expected appeared

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We could have passed unnoticed if it was not the desire of some jokers who have seized and flooded Twitter short links evoking a completely different subject but actually referring to Crashsafari. Then just to say “gotcha” …

We thus find it behind a supposed leak of a Kanye West album, the announcement of a free day or during an enigmatic “j ‘would not have believed “that grows to click to learn more …

According to a tweet from the company specialized in computer security F-Secure, one of those short links already opened more than 100 000 times. And inevitably, the joke begins to tire of more than one.

Fortunately, this script is not dangerous and will damage any PC or smartphone. At worst, it will restart the machine to be used again as if nothing had

. Source: The Guardian

Cécile BOLESSE

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