Teen hacker 'accidentally' causes 911 attack
31st October 2016
An 18-year-old has been charged with three counts of computer tampering after "accidentally" swamping Arizona's emergency services with thousands of bogus 911 telephone calls.
Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai told police he had tried to share on Twitter a link to JavaScript code that exposed iOS bugs making phones freeze or restart.
He had hoped Apple would pay him a bug bounty for information about the flaws, but had mistakenly linked to an earlier version of his app that had made users' phones keep on dialling 911.
In a statement, Maricopa County sheriff's office...