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Apple to Fight AirDrop Spam With New iPhone Setting Launching Widely Next Year
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This. I keep mine on everyone because "contacts only" doesn't work most of the time and because I often do airdrop with coworkers who are not in my contacts anyway.
I do, and I often tell others to do the same for sheer simplicity. It is very tedious for people to keep turning theirs on and off like you are suggesting. You'd be surprised how many people seem to have absolutely no idea how airdrop works.
Even with it being first thought up of by the CCP, I think this is actually a good idea. Cannot state how many times I see random people's iPhones with wide open AirDrop. So this is a good thing.
Didn't realize this was such a big problem that it warranted this kind of response?
As a few others have said, I've never had someone attempt an AirDrop to me randomly, and I was under the impression you can't see someone if the phone is asleep. Must be geared towards densely populated areas...
As a few others have said, I've never had someone attempt an AirDrop to me randomly, and I was under the impression you can't see someone if the phone is asleep. Must be geared towards densely populated areas...
Who in the world has "everyone" turned on in the first place.
In reality, though, if an authoritarian government wanted to grab someone out of their car today and take them off to an undisclosed location, they wouldn’t need to load their phone with CSAM to do so. They wouldn’t need to use any of their devices or services to plant “evidence”. They could just… do it.
Folks upset about CSAM scanning are trying to convince themselves that’s NOT the case
Okay.
But we MR users don’t represent the average iPhone user.
Whenever I travel, or just sit at a restaurant or cafe, there is always many devices that I can Airdrop to.
I assume that most don’t understand airdrop or think that they need to have it open for everyone for it to work.
I have never experienced random AirDrop. I think it is good practice to keep to contacts only.
In reality, though, if an authoritarian government wanted to grab someone out of their car today and take them off to an undisclosed location, they wouldn’t need to load their phone with CSAM to do so. They wouldn’t need to use any of their devices or services to plant “evidence”. They could just… do it.
Folks upset about CSAM scanning are trying to convince themselves that’s NOT the case
I get that, I’m talking about civilians setting each other up. I don’t remember the details but there is a Chinese streamer who was selling things, a very popular young guy, and his assistant hands him a cake tank man. Guy didn’t even know what it was, he was too young to see it when it happened and of course no one had ever told him about it. Last I checked he disappeared hours later and no one had seen him since. Too lazy to google now, may post links later.
That’s what I mean.
This form of airdrop protest going on in China puts random recipients at risk of getting disappeared by the Chinese government. It's not cool, it's stupid and reckless. Apple are right to finally concede that leaving an open door on phones is a major security risk for their customers in authoritarian environments. If people want to share seditious images between consenting adults they can still do that with Airdrop. If they want to recruit people they'll have to find ways to display their images that don't involve planting them on non-consenting passers-by.
I guess I'm not surprised that MacRumors has not posted this as a headline story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5bm/apple-airdrop-china-ios
Come on Timmy, show some support for Chinese Democracy, it is not just a failed Guns N Roses album.
Update: OK, kudos to MacRumors for mentioning it in this post but bad job in writing the headline.
And I remember when Timmy Cook defended having Iphone factories in China over America by claiming Americans don't possess the skills to make them, BS, build some factories in a few struggling American inner cities, guarantee the people there will learn really fast how to make Iphones, not one media shill called him out on that duplicitious double talk.
In reality, though, if an authoritarian government wanted to grab someone out of their car today and take them off to an undisclosed location, they wouldn’t need to load their phone with CSAM to do so. They wouldn’t need to use any of their devices or services to plant “evidence”. They could just… do it.
Folks upset about CSAM scanning are trying to convince themselves that’s NOT the case
Yeah but why give them any advantages, you think it is so easy but remember the historical lessons of Germany, the Nazis had to start slow, passed law after law to whittle away the rights of Jewish Germans, it did not just happen overnight.
I wish someone in the tech media would actually ask Tim Cook a tough question, amazing how many Apple boot lickers there are in the media, I mean come on, the guy basically gets a free commercial from NBC/CBS/ABC whenever there is a product release, one of their journalists can at the very least ask him if the Chinese kleptocrats requested this feature.
Come on Kara Swisher, this can be your time to actually ask a tough question, we believe in you.
I think the people under Xi Jinping's boot ought to be able to make that decision, not us fat cats enjoying our freedom.
Having never checked this setting before, I just looked now. So at least I in the world had this turned on in the first place — by default apparently. I also never received any unsolicited files. ¯\_( ツ)_/¯
Oddly, Apple didn’t see it as “a good thing” when — according to comments here — it has arguably been a
problem for a while, what with all the inappropriate content, school disruptions, “security concerns,” etc. Well, at least until China said so (due solely to too much freedom of speech going on), and since Xi absolutely has Timmy by the short hairs, the Think Different company snaps into line, tout de suite. Sad!
How exactly is having AirDrop no longer remaining open permanently some great outrage? Did you even think before you posted?
About twelve years ago Obama asked Jobs what it would take to get the iPhone made in America. He said it would take ten years of investment. Apparently no one thought we’d still be here in ten years.
He made a declarative statement, "those jobs are not coming back", and like everything the situation is complex, everyone would be paying more for the Iphones if they were made in America, but Tim Cook should just say that and not that Americans are not skilled enough.
As for your previous post, the information is available on Google.
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