That means it's probably a bug in a proprietary Apple layer. I don't believe Terminal uses Apple tech for its text rendering (besides the usual Quartz layer for drawing...).
Well, truly malicious malware might be able to use this to cause your apps to repetitively crash. Especially given how trivial it is to automate text entry on a Mac using simple AppleScript commands.
That means it's probably a bug in a proprietary Apple layer. I don't believe Terminal uses Apple tech for its text rendering (besides the usual Quartz layer for drawing...).
This might have something to do with the strange kernel panics I'm getting when downloading really big updates in the App store.
Mountain Lion = Vista 2012
This might have something to do with the strange kernel panics I'm getting when downloading really big updates in the App store. I had to get a new verson of XCode last week. I made several attempts, but it always results in a spontaneous reboot somewhere in the middle of the process... sometimes only after most of the download has completed.
Arrrrgghhh! I hate Mountain Lion.
Heh. Wonder if it effects any other versions of OS X.
Oh come on. If malicious malware can enter text on your machine using AppleScript commands, then your machine is already owned by some hacker, and crashing applications are the least of your worries.
I have to agree. I haven't typed that in anything for a very long time. Sure this is a bad bug. But it's not going to hassle the average user. As they simply don't do this.Exactly, haven't typed 'File://' into anything for 60 years until this post and probably won't have too until I die.
Definitely worried....................NOT!!!
And you're running Mountain Lion?
So I tested this by iMessaging myself the text from iPhone.
iMessage on Mac crashed right away, and then crashed again when I clicked re-open.
Again, and again, and again, and again. Deleting the texts from iPhone doesn't stop the crashing on Mac.
Your machine doesn't have to be "owned" by a hacker to automate AppleScript commands. Care to download a piece of software from me as an example? (I jest)
LOL, only in the OS X world would people be excited over a bug that crashes everything. On anything else, people would be furious and be demanding for an update.
Let's hope that Apple servers ain't running Mac OS X or else Apple is going to crash with the crash logs