A certain string of characters in your wireless network is apparently all you need to disable WiFi on someone's iPhone. – dpa
As far as bugs go, the most recent one reportedly hitting iPhone owners is one of the strangest: All it takes to disable your WiFi on iOS is a specific string of characters in the wireless network’s name.
Danish IT specialist Carl Schou said on Twitter that he could no longer activate WiFi on his device after after connecting to a WLAN network with a specific combination of characters. Connecting to other networks is also no longer possible.
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