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The BBC reports on a woman who was sent pictures of a penis via Apple AirDrop.
The victim received two pictures of an unknown man's penis on her phone via Apple's Airdrop sharing function.
Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt "violated" and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP).
Supt Gill Murray said this particular crime was new to her force and urged people to report any other incidents.
Ms Crighton-Smith, who was travelling on a train in south London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "I had Airdrop switched on because I had been using it previously to send photos to another iPhone user - and a picture appeared on the screen of a man's penis, which I was quite shocked by.
The article later describes how to make sure that AirDrop is set to only allow pictured from known contacts.
Is this a major privacy issue or is it simply a case of a misconfigured device?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 18 2015, @04:29PM
It fits in well with neopuritan drama in main stream media that nobody believes but everyone knows is true.
Combine that with the insane commercialization of advertising and spam and it makes no sense. I get thousands of spam emails per week vs zero anonymous dick pix.
Frankly the story smells, like someone is making the whole thing up as some kind of weird astroturf.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:21PM
No, it sounds like Apple has added a brand new feature, and some guy wanted to experiment with it.
Her reaction must have been all that he hoped for. Both are pretty sick.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.