Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

theguardian.com

3 pointssabbasb1 comment

So in theory I could create a SDR setup using openBTS and then go around sending a GSM date of 1970-01-01 "bricking" iphones left and right?

Alternatively a bug or misconfiguration in the GSM time service could "brick" phones.