Major Iphone bug found - text can make your phone crash - fixed?

Sourced here: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37enow/about_the_latest_iphone_security_vulnerability/

Long story short, latest iphone vulnerability has to do with how it processes banner notifications with Unicode text.  Sending the following as a text while a phone is locked it supposed to crash teh phone.



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Power.
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I 'tested' this with a friend, looks like Apple might have already fixed it.  I can paste the string and it's correct but when sent the jihadi looking string get's mirrored.  The friend's phone did not do anything weird or detrimental... it just kept on working.

Yay Apple?

Mysterious duplicate Contacts on iPhone

So I've had this nagging issue for the past couple of years now and I guess I never really pursued it very far.  My last company phone was a Blackberry Z10 and I loved it.
Anyway I had a major issue with duplicate contact entries.. and by duplicate I mean some would have 18, others 3.  It varied by that much!

The only accounts I had tied to any phone was my Gmail and my corporate Exchange and neither of those listed many of these weird contact entries in their address or contact lists.  I ignored it often, cussed it other times and today I discovered the reason:  Outlook Suggested Contacts.

By default everytime you email someone from Outlook that does not have an existing contact entry in either your GAL or a local Contact Group/list Outlook automatically creates one under the 'Suggested Contacts'.  So in Outlook if you click on Address Book"

Then Suggested Contacts:

You'll undoubtedly see a TON of entries, most of which you won't give a care about having as a contact.  Hell I had Craigslist randomized addresses in mine.  So do disable such a nonsensical thing, click on File then Options then Contacts: