Wanna crash cool gadgets like iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android devices and also some Desktop that has low processing power ? Then you are at right post. Recently a small hack has been released that can crash the above mentioned products.
There is a message in many social media spreading saying click the link and the link will be "#crashsafari" once the user clicks on the link then the browser will stop responding and the device may enter into a loop of restart also.
A simple link and has simple coding will cause the crash of your browser and it is due to the small script that has been placed in the page source code.
The script contains a loop for 100000 times which calls the history.pushstate() HTML5 API which will insert the history entry into the browser and at the same time at one stage it will become unable to render the page by browser and enters Not Responding state.
Simple way to recover is to quit the application if iProducts and to kill the process in Task Manager if Windows. The opened tabs will be lost and if clicked on Restore then again it will happen.
Tested Browser : Safari in iPhone, iPad and Mac ; Firefox, Chrome in Windows, Android devices.
IE is not affected to this at normal settings and Chrome and Firefox crash occurs at a point when more resource has been consumed and there is no way. The link that causes crash is here. THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OCCURED BY CLICKING ON THE LINK AND SHOULD BE USED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY. If you are keen in testing test it with Virtual Machine not with Host machine.
P.S: The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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