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> 2. Since this has happened several times at this point, the point is moot. Since this is familiar territory, why not log it and have the system tell HQ something weird happened?

This has real privacy considerations. I would rather Apple not simply get a message sent to me forwarded to them. Is the trade off worth it in this case? That's not so easy to pick for all ~1/2 billion or so users.

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I would rather Apple not simply get a message sent to me forwarded to them. Is the trade off worth it in this case? That's not so easy to pick for all ~1/2 billion or so users.

All Apple would need to get is the notification that there was a crash. It could be left to the user if the crashed message gets forwarded.

What sort of useful information would that even provide? It would just show that the system crashed because of a text. You'd still have to send some sort of contextual information about the text, which itself would carry non-metadata information about the text (ie, components of the text's contents).

> (ie, components of the text's contents)

Which may then crash the prompt asking if it can send the crash...

Just send the metadata and the hex dump.

What sort of useful information would that even provide?

If it's a widespread attack, then the traffic analysis would still be useful. A hex dump of the offending data could be sent.

You could let the user decide with buttons on the error dialogue. Lot's of crash reporters use this pattern.

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