A teen hacker who released an emergency call to 911 using a bug in iOS is arrested

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The 18-year-old adolesd published on Twitter tapped the link of the AmericanEmergency call phone number"911" which is a phone call, and the link was tapped thousands of times in a short period of time, and an emergency occurred that 911 became temporarily difficult to connect. A young man who released a threat link as if to launch a DDoS attack on 911 was finally arrested, but he insists that the link was "misdirected to the public."

Bug Bounty Hunter Launches Accidental DDoS Attack on 911 Systems via iOS Bug
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IPhone hack that threatened emergency 911 system lands teen in jail | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/teen-arrested-for-iphone-hack-that-threatened-emergency-911-system/


Teen hacker 'accidentally' causes 911 attack - BBC News
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It was arrested by Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He tells the police, "I tried to share the JavaScript code link to freeze or restart the terminal using iOS bugs on Twitter," but actually I posted on Twitter "911" It was said that it was a link to call.

Desai published the code on Twitter seems to have reported the "iOS bug" that he discovered to Apple and thought to receive a reward. However, desai seems to have published the link of the latest version code created by himself on Twitter, but in reality it has released the link of the code we developed earlier, It was a code saying to call "911" from the terminal of the user who tapped using the bug of. According to Maricopa county Arizona State sheriff office, the link released by Desai was tapped about 2000 times, it is temporarily unlikely to be connected to the emergency telephone number in Arizona, Texas, California It has evolved into.

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Ars Technica, an international news media, said, "It is very dangerous to hack a terminal or network without clear permission or owner's cooperation (such as a system), possibly legal charges There is also "warning.

In addition, the 911 service is classified as a serious social capital, and in Arizona state interferes with it will be charged with the same degree of crime as "human trafficking" or "second level killing".