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Don’t the phones practically need to be touching for that feature? I don’t think that reduces AirDrop privacy, you’d know who it was from that distance anyway.
by lelandfe 3y ago
Don’t the phones practically need to be touching for that feature?
I don’t think that reduces AirDrop privacy, you’d know who it was from that distance anyway.
- jrmg 3y agoYou also need to affirmatively press the button obviously titled ‘share’ before it sends the contact info.
- NavinF 3y agoYep. I'm convinced that anyone complaining about this has never used the feature. Context on how this misinformation started on the Facebook pages of police departments: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/27/ios-17-namedrop-misinformation/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/27/ios-17-namedrop-misinfo... Some day I'd like to use an LLM to read every user's comments on websites like this and automatically tag the users that fell for similar fake stories. That way I can avoid wasting time researching their claims
- quacksilver 3y agoI wonder if it is possible to do a relay attack to something like: - a malicious wireless charger - a coffee shop table / bar table / desk - a phone holder in a vehicle or use an SDR with a high gain directed / beam formed antenna to pretend to be much closer than you really are I don't know exactly how it works (or have a modern iOS device to test on), so all speculation