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by morcheeba 1585 days ago
One of the earlier iPhone jailbreaks was a tiff image... complicated decompression/rendering algorithms leave room for implementation errors, which can be taken advantage of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#JailbreakMe_1.0_(i...

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At some point it was also used as a way to get a custom firmware onto a PSP.

Then modders somehow managed to update the batteries' firmware (cf "Pandora battery") and use that. Sony couldn’t patch it, and it was basically game over for them until they released a new generation of hardware, with motherboards immune to the trick.

Fun times.