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.
effective
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?
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