Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch (opens in new tab)

(theguardian.com)

3 pointssabbasb10y ago1 comments

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So in theory I could create a SDR setup using openBTS and then go around sending a GSM date of 1970-01-01 "bricking" iphones left and right?

Alternatively a bug or misconfiguration in the GSM time service could "brick" phones.

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(theguardian.com)

3 pointssabbasb10y ago1 comments

So in theory I could create a SDR setup using openBTS and then go around sending a GSM date of 1970-01-01 "bricking" iphones left and right?

Alternatively a bug or misconfiguration in the GSM time service could "brick" phones.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse