A mysterious five-second video causes phones to slow down and eventually crash. The video is a seemingly harmless mp4 file showing what appears to be a very quick magic trick.... 5 Second Video Will Crash any iPhone
The potential for abusing this is huge. I can see tons of people getting this vid on their phones and wondering wtf.
Seems like something is simply creating tasks or blocking threads continuously. Video seems stupid. It doesn't slow down while the hardware can handle it, over the limit it takes effect until coming to a grinding halt in the end.
Got to say I do love stuff like this, weird little bugs in the system that can be exploited, If I wasn't a life scientist and thus didn't hate maths I'd proably spend all my time doing this. As it stands I'll wait for computer file to release a video explaining what they think is happening.
I'd love to take down all mobile devices for a full 48hours, i might actually get to see my misses face for once without the glow of her tablet/phone. Could you imagine how people would actually be from lack of their phones for a few days. I think there would be riots.^^
My bet on why it crashes it. But I could be COMPLETELY wrong. Video ID : 2 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Baseline@L3 Format settings, CABAC : No Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 5 s 7 ms Duration_LastFrame : -33 ms Bit rate : 789 kb/s Width : 480 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 1.000 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.137 Stream size : 486 KiB (92%) Title : Core Media Video Encoded date : UTC 2016-11-17 20:14:29 Tagged date : UTC 2016-11-17 20:14:29 But, the way it does it is weird.
