[guardian-dev] Airdrop drive-by trolling

[Lee Azzarello]

Gotta love the war driving metaphor! I've never used this on OS X let alone
iOS. It sounded ridiculous on both platforms. For p2p sharing I'm partial
to the new BitTorrent client application. Runs on Apple products and
everything else as well.

-lee

On Monday, November 10, 2014, Nathan of Guardian <
nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
> Interesting that this is possible... I suppose Bluetooth is not so
> dissimilar if you are discoverable, but in this case, the recipient does
> see a preview of the media shared.
>
>
> http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/11/10/7171345/the-best-use-for-apple-airdrop-is-space-sloths
>
> "Each day I get on the train to make the half hour voyage into San
> Francisco for work, I am surrounded by people using their phones. Many
> have iPhones or iPads, and have a setting turned on that lets me send
> them unsolicited files through AirDrop. Where Apple envisioned it as a
> way to send useful files and websites to friends and acquaintances, I
> use it to send photos of sloths to strangers. And not just any sloths,
> but sloths wearing spacesuits."
>
> ...
>
> "By default, the feature is not set to share with everyone. In fact,
> AirDrop itself is not even turned on until you use it for the first
> time. But I've found that a surprising number of people have flipped it
> on, and set it to accept things from the entire world. I assume that's
> by mistake, but by the time they've realized that, I've already struck.
> They can, of course, decline the AirSloth, but I know they've seen a
> small preview of it."
>
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