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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 maxwell demon on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:16PM
Maybe first read the post you reply to (emphasis by me):
A privacy issue is a very specific type of issue. If a pickpocket steals your money, that's also clearly an issue, and not acceptable, but it's not a privacy issue. It may, however, turn out to be a privacy issue if the briefcase he stole did not just contain money, but also personal data (like your driving license, or some paper where you wrote down your passwords).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @10:55PM
...and how does it impact your position if someone turned up, left an unlocked and open briefcase beside yours, and it contained photographs of a penis that you looked at?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 19 2015, @06:15AM
Impact my position? I'm sorry, I don't understand you.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.