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Ars Technica writes that 18-year-old iPhone app developer Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai has been arrested in Arizona after attacking 911 emergency systems with a code that attempted to take the systems down across Arizona, and possibly even further.
According to Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Desai published web links that led to iPhones repeatedly dialling 911. The situation in Surprise, Arizona, was actually so bad that authorities were said to be “in immediate danger of losing service to their switches.” Some parts of California and Texas were also affected.
Desai said in a message on his YouTube channel that it was “Just a fun prank that many other big YouTube channels covered as well.”
Desai told the police that he unleashed the “prank” in a bid to discover iOS bugs and win bug bounty cash from Apple.
Desai was booked in Maricopa County Jail on three counts of computer tampering. The charges are class 2 felonies due to the 911 system being considered as a critical infrastructure.
Thanks to @KevinJS for the heads-up on this story.
Source: iPhone hack that threatened emergency 911 system lands teen in jail
