The patch is already available for Google's own line of phones - the various Nexus models. But phones will remain vulnerable until they're updated with the latest software patch. Gordon warned Google ( GOOGL) about the vulnerability back in August, so the company released a patch for the flaw last week. Wait maybe five minutes, and the phone goes straight to the unlocked home screen.
(Based on Gordon's video, it looks like 163,840 total characters.) Paste the super long character string a few times until the system crashes. Then open the phone's camera app and prompt the phone to request a password. The character 'string' grows exponentially, so it quickly becomes close to 40,960 characters long. Type a few characters, then copy-and-paste the text repeatedly. From the locked screen, open the phone's 'Emergency Call' feature.
