In this Post, we will discuss about the new spam message, which has recently started circulating via whatsapp and it is making everyone’s whatsapp application crashed...
color>A new spam Message has recently started circulating via Whatsapp that is making everyone’s whatsapp application crashed when they’re clicking on the message that is something like – “if you touch the black point then your whatsapp will hang..don’t touch here”.(See pic1)
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For understanding the reason, you’ll need to have a basic knowledge about ASCII values. Typically ASCII decimal number is created from binary, which is the language that all computers understand. Each alphabet has its own ASCII value (i.e: "A" has a ASCII value of 065). So if you send a text message on whatsapp, the system first breaks down each and every alphabet into ASCII characters. But there’s a limit in the numbers of text (ASCII values) that you can send via a single message in whatsapp messenger. Whatsapp encountered the issue by adding Read more.. feature. But in case of this “Don’t touch here” text, you’ll notice a blank place. At that blank looking space, there are many hidden special characters stored that you can’t even see. Moving your cursor or pointer to the blank space of the text will also make your whatsapp hanged (Not your phone).
So we’ve downloaded the .txt file of the text and opened it in Google chrome. See, what we’ve found(See pic2,pic3). The text contains this many hidden special characters. We’ll need to scroll down our mobile screen 5-7 times if we want to show all the characters.
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Also we’ve converted the full text into ASCII values, and typically we got thousands of ASCII characters. You’ll need around 30-35 minutes to read the all characters(See pic4).
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As we’ve said before, there’s a limit in sending the message on whatsapp. Here when you send this messages, you’re exceeding the limit. Initially the special characters are hidden, so when you get the text it won’t hang your phone. But as there are many characters hidden, when you click or touch the message, WhatsApp app won’t be able to read that, and thus, it results sudden WhatsApp crash. And it’s the whole story. While it is like it effected only few apps, notepad app (clevnote) of our android phone is also crashing after clicking on the text. Though facebook remains unaffected. Still it’s an evil thing using which you can prank or hang whatsapp of your friends.
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For understanding the reason, you’ll need to have a basic knowledge about ASCII values. Typically ASCII decimal number is created from binary, which is the language that all computers understand. Each alphabet has its own ASCII value (i.e: "A" has a ASCII value of 065). So if you send a text message on whatsapp, the system first breaks down each and every alphabet into ASCII characters. But there’s a limit in the numbers of text (ASCII values) that you can send via a single message in whatsapp messenger. Whatsapp encountered the issue by adding Read more.. feature. But in case of this “Don’t touch here” text, you’ll notice a blank place. At that blank looking space, there are many hidden special characters stored that you can’t even see. Moving your cursor or pointer to the blank space of the text will also make your whatsapp hanged (Not your phone).
So we’ve downloaded the .txt file of the text and opened it in Google chrome. See, what we’ve found(See pic2,pic3). The text contains this many hidden special characters. We’ll need to scroll down our mobile screen 5-7 times if we want to show all the characters.
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Also we’ve converted the full text into ASCII values, and typically we got thousands of ASCII characters. You’ll need around 30-35 minutes to read the all characters(See pic4).
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As we’ve said before, there’s a limit in sending the message on whatsapp. Here when you send this messages, you’re exceeding the limit. Initially the special characters are hidden, so when you get the text it won’t hang your phone. But as there are many characters hidden, when you click or touch the message, WhatsApp app won’t be able to read that, and thus, it results sudden WhatsApp crash. And it’s the whole story. While it is like it effected only few apps, notepad app (clevnote) of our android phone is also crashing after clicking on the text. Though facebook remains unaffected. Still it’s an evil thing using which you can prank or hang whatsapp of your friends.
