3fadba No.15584056
People are sending a string of code in psn messages to randoms that when received bricks the console and causes a factory reset due to a flaw in the systems OS.
Just getting it, not even reading it causes the bricking and this is quickly becoming a tactic by salty fucks who get beaten in games like Rainbow Six Siege.
>inb4 lol consoles
Get it out the way, point is set it to friends only or no messages now until its fixed to avoid having a brick under your TV.
73296d No.15584062
1b1e78 No.15584063
Does it brick it or factory reset it?
That's two different things.
7f626e No.15584064
>this mongoloid retard bought not only a PS4 but a ubisoft FPS for it
635e4a No.15584077
b4e9ec No.15584081
>"code" being sent through a messaging application can directly alter the system settings
>no source whatsoever
Sounds legit
993ca7 No.15584082
93fcfc No.15584083
aa0616 No.15584086
>Sonyggers getting btfo by salty faggot losers
embarrassing on such a "modern" console
cbc42e No.15584090
Consoles aren't even buying anymore. Just pirate that shit on PC.
258193 No.15584091
Thats bullshit
But I believe it
Source it fag, then check these repeated numerals
18fc90 No.15584097
Post the actual string first
03c033 No.15584134
It's not a bricking string, unfortunately. It has a fix- if you delete the message over the Playstation messaging app, the PS4 will work fine.
People confirming it on plebbit. Really want to get my hands on that message though.
http://archive.is/7Jpzk
http://archive.is/shUIQ
74a8bc No.15584171
Is there a way to access PSN without a memestation?
6ed6e1 No.15584197
>>15584134
>Juegas unknown character heart
what?
682c78 No.15584212
>they just send a string of code and you instantly kill your console
I'm calling fucking bullshit, because a 'code string' is not the arc of the covenant that will instantly fry your electronics for daring to gaze upon it
d79c0c No.15584240
>>15584197
>>15584212
The unknown character is apparently what causes the event to happen.
03c033 No.15584281
>>15584240
Might be that character + the heart. There's different forms of the message but the heart's common in both- pic related.
really wish we had more hispanics on the board now- they'd probably have it
b45918 No.15584308
>>15584171
This, is there anyway to brick em in mass?
7f1168 No.15584311
>>15584305
I want Mark to die.
03c033 No.15584339
>>15584308
You can use the Playstation app on mobile, I think there's a web client too. You'd need usernames though.
This could be the spiritual successor to the boston salt party if we get it in time.
04c4cb No.15584366
>>15584305
the fuck is wrong with 4chan /v/ if that's what you want
a81541 No.15584372
>>15584305
fuck off you sack of shit
24e895 No.15584375
>>15584281
>>15584305
You need to go back and stay back.
b2ac64 No.15584386
ba9c6f No.15584407
>This entire thread
Holy shit where did all these retards come from? Fucking iOS had a similar bug a couple years ago. It comes from faulty font rendering engines. Its not the first time this happened. You can "brick" some OS' with text bugs. Look up the effective.power iOS bug
652e39 No.15584422
>avoid having a brick under your TV
The best way to avoid this is to not buy it in the first place.
43c510 No.15584453
>death by emoji
Fucking wew.
>>15584281
Hat dance your faggot self off to hispachan or whatever, taconigger.
b3fffb No.15584468
>>15584212
>>15584056
>Cuckchan /v/ is crying Nintendo fake news and PlayStation owners being oppressed on /Cuckchan. /v/
ade4d9 No.15584471
>>15584305
If you're not okay with white,you're not okay with life.
6ad945 No.15584484
>>15584305
Here's your (You) faggot
c3c4f3 No.15584502
>Only thing I play is N Sane Trilogeta and Nuclear throne
>Having online anything enabled on a Pay to Play system
Eh, maybe a Leaderboard chaser will get mad at me
Also a factory reset isn't a brick you toilet brush
6fc5d8 No.15584511
>>15584305
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
6caf5d No.15584626
>82ec28
nice bait faggot, but we all know that h8chan is the most diverse white supremacist group.
93ed2a No.15584673
I'm happy about this because anything that hurts Sony is good at this point.
c2748d No.15584696
>>15584305
How do you know we're white?
:^)
cbe3ca No.15584704
How come this is a thing in the first place? Shouldn't there be a code to handle unusual/garbage characters in a message string?
8ef118 No.15584716
>>15584664
This. Shameful display
8b1735 No.15591114
>only effects ponys
Who cares?
8d1fa3 No.15591177
>>15584673
The only people getting hurt are the people who spent 300+ dollars on a PS4. I know the general mindset is “it’s their own fault.” But just know that Sony loses nothing, it’s the consumer that’s getting screwed.
ea67e5 No.15591190
Fug, I'll guess I'll have to do that. Its only ever fags crying to me or bots pretending they're stacy anyway. I fear the samurai more than anything.
7a97c8 No.15591207
>>15584704
The more you need to account for the global market, the more weird cases there are that you'll need to program around.
There was a bug in iOS a while ago regarding text handling of Arabic, since their characters change depending upon where they are in a word. If certain words were partially displayed in a notification (Cut off with a …), it would cause a system-crashing loop that was something along the lines of a half-completed word changing length as its middle character became an end, which made the notification function try to expand or subtract the word length over and over to fit.
I can be forgiving to programmers for not thinking to check what happens to their displays if they get hit with weird, foreign edge cases involving reverse directions and variable spacing.
c1315b No.15591216
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15584281
I find it interesting that this isn't the first time a major messaging system had its anus blown wide open by the heart emoji.
0c4e5c No.15591428
>>15584056
why not just disconnect the system from the internet?
10708a No.15591476
>>15591177
The consumer always hurts themselves to begin with by buying Sony. Not just in gaming areas, but also their recent films, photography, their other consumer electronics…this is really just a consequence of buying into a bad ecosystem.
a5e2d2 No.15592010
Serves them right for playing Siege
441f29 No.15592893
>>15584453
>Hat dance your faggot self off to hispachan or whatever, taconigger.
Wew, hispachan is dead and they mostly moved here.
>>>/hisparefugio/
ec3c8e No.15592937
>>15584081
I mean code made by shitty chinese interns, I would not be surprised.
t. codefag
dd5af5 No.15592959
Unexcusable. But is anyone suprised? Faggots still bought Sony products even a whole month went by without Sony disclosing that all their users private information and credit card numbers had been hacked and nothing was fixed.
And you retards still bought their new console. Sometimes it's better to not be a fucking moron.
018ebd No.15597491
Kek, this is hilarous and exactly what console kids deserve
5949be No.15597509
>>15584063
it forces the user to factory reset, to be more accurate
20920c No.15597531
>>15591177
I mean, they gave financial support to a console, they do sort of deserve it.
b81910 No.15597597
>>15584281
>juegas
>jew gas
94c4f8 No.15598329
So this is why GayStation won't cross platform.
It would literally be Console Wars with Xbots bricking Soy consoles through game chat.
106d8e No.15605478
>>15598329
It would be great.
0185ca No.15605498
>no exception handling
Chinks can't code.
1f5b4f No.15605966
>>15584056
>to avoid having a brick under your TV.
Better than having a Sony Playstation under your TV.
93e383 No.15606070
>>15584056
What does the message say?
f6df96 No.15606144
>>15606070
the message said: REDDIT TOLD ME HOW TO BRICK YOUR CONSOLE XD
c079aa No.15606148
>>15606144
That's it? How boring.
b53ec9 No.15606240
>>15606144
>just install our mobile app goyim
f6df96 No.15606262
>>15606240
that was the temporary fix
61b469 No.15606590
>>15605966
>>to avoid having a brick under your TV.
>Better than having a Sony Playstation under your TV.
>He doesn't want a sleek sexy Dreamcast display stand under his TV.
And this is why the PS3 failed. It had a domed top that you couldn't set a Dreamcast on.
59954e No.15606599
>>15606590
>Sega bringing the bants up until death.
0e2b2a No.15606630
>>15606590
>Dreamcast
Blue Stinger, the best version of MvC2, Crazy Taxi, Space Channel 5, Jet Set radio, best version of ShadowMan, D2, I could go on but the amount of good shit on The Cast is unreal.
Fuck this was truly the greatest console ever made. Makes me angry just thinking of faggots buying a Ps2 over a Dreamcast.
ce1341 No.15606665
>>15584134
>There are all kinds of interesting ways you can fuck up text processing, especially if you're coding in C, C++ or another unsafe language.
Man these fucking kikes really are the dumbest suckers on the internet.
c079aa No.15606745
>>15606630
Saturn is better tbh
93fcfc No.15614948
>>15584134
Not even surprised.
466e0b No.15614967
>>15606665
Surprise surprise, a person who communicates in /pol/-speak doesn't have a bloody clue. There is a lot involved when you have to deal with character encoding, especially if it has to deal with weird languages.
https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/
e8456f No.15615047
>>15614967
Cute girl, whats sh =e from
typed with one hand because im soaking the other in ebson salt
a909a1 No.15615096
>>15584056
this happened to iPhones a while back, pretty funny.
52c9aa No.15615845
>>15591207
That's funny as hell that it was Arabic blowing peoples' phones up.
52c9aa No.15615858
>>15615047
Pretty sure it's a he.
cee74e No.15615871
First thing I did was set my profile to private.
466e0b No.15618702
>>15615871
I learned that after getting canvassed by camwhores on PSN. As if they thought Vita gamers were a worthwhile target.
>>15615845
Yeah but it is just because the language is a nightmare to handle. So's Hebrew.
e77c24 No.15622715
How fucking hard is it to put a filter on your text input to check that each character is a valid.. that whole 3 lines of code.. wew
d54652 No.15622736
Sonychan will be up in arms
0a7bb1 No.15623400
>>15606630
Best version of resi 2 also
01de42 No.15623426
I don't know what's a bigger piece of shit
Sony, Microsoft, or people that willing give either Cluster of Faggots money.
93fcfc No.15630883
>>15623426
The latter. If people could just avoid paying for this it would disappear in an instance.
bd3338 No.15630958
didn't something like this happen to iPhones because of an undefined unicode character?