l3g0la5 writes:
"Apple released iOS 7.0.6 to patch a vulnerability which, if unpatched, could allow attackers to capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. However, quite a few users have reported that the upgrade didn't go as planned and their iDevices have been bricked after the update or during the update process. Users have flocked to Twitter as well as Apple support forums voicing their concerns and frustrations as quite a few users have tried updating their iOS 7 devices while on the move and once bricked, their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch requires a connection to iTunes to restart."
(Score: 1) by denmarkw00t on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:34PM
Maybe. I'm not sure what comes with Android phones these days, but my wife's old Xperia came with some Sony software that prominently displayed options to repair a "bricked" phone. And, given that this does affect a wide swath of users, many would probably consider it bricked. Of course, we here on...SN? What's the "/." equiv here????? I imagine most of the audience here will not take kindly to "bricked" being used to describe a phone that's a few clicks away from being usable again.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by denmarkw00t on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:43PM
Oh hay, from TFA (and probably should've been in the summary tbh):
Some of the users were able to enter recovery mode and then after a factory reset managed to restore their last backup to get their iDevice working, but quite a few were not lucky.
So, SOME could restore, others were genuinely bricked (it seems, the language still isn't clear).
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