[RndTbl] iOS bug breaks WiFi if SSID contains "%" characters

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Tue Jun 22 15:20:45 CDT 2021


This one made me laugh.  Someone didn't clean up their input strings 
before passing them along to a formatting function...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphone-bug-breaks-wifi-when-you-join-hotspot-with-unusual-name/

https://www.engadget.com/iphone-wifi-network-name-bug-191550155.html

Watch out for a proliferation of goofy-named hotspots until this one is 
fixed!

Gilbert

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