Photo by Noah Berger / AFP - Getty ImagesIn the last few weeks, a security researcher and his iPhones wifi became strangely familiarized with Murphy's law. We now have a clue about another cursed wifi network we should avoid, based on his experiences. Your iPhone doesn't have to be connected to the network in order to make mistakes.AdvertisementIn June, security researcher Carl Schou discovered that his iPhone's wifi functionality was permanently disabled after he joined the network. This was easily fixed by resetting all network settings. It also erased the evil wifi name from his phone's memory. It would seem that this would have ended the need to connect to networks with strange and unusual names. But you are wrong Schou.He decided to give it another go on Sunday by exploring a public WiFi network called %secretclub%power. Schou claims that a single iOS device within the range of a wifi network named %secretclub%power can permanently disable its wifi functionality.He wrote that you can permanently disable WiFI on iOS devices by creating a public WiFi called %secretclub%power. It is not possible to restore functionality by resetting network settings.G/O Media could be eligible for a World of Warcraft 60 Day Time Card at Eneba. Use the promo code: 20210704Schou claimed that he struggled to get out of this one and restore his wifi functionality. Schou claimed that he reset his network settings several times, restarted his iPhone and even contacted Apple's device security team. Twitter offered some assistance to the researcher, advising him to manually modify an iPhone backup in order to delete malicious entries from known networks plist files.Gizmodo has not tried this fix. If you find yourself in this position, be cautious. Although it is not known what caused this bug, some suspect that the percent sign and characters immediately following it could be misinterpreted as a string format specifier or variable or command used to code languages. It can lead to problems when it is processed by the phone.AdvertisementIt's been a difficult few months for us all, and we don't need trolls setting up public WiFi networks with %secretclub%power to take our wifi away. It might be smart to avoid public wifi networks until Apple fixes them in a future update, which will hopefully arrive sooner than expected. Instead, rely only on your iOS device's mobile data when you are away from a safe wifi network.
