Tom Scott

How The Black Point Message Crashes Android Apps

S8 • E19    May 5, 2018    5m
"_If you touch the black point then your WhatsApp will hang_", says the message that's being sent around, and it's right. It's a text rendering bug, the same as many others -- which isn't interesting. But the characters it's using, Unicode RTL and LTR marks, are worth knowing about.

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