Some law enforcement agencies are encouraging iPhone users to be cautious following a new update.
    • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      It’s a tough call. Many forums have a rule against changing the title at all. People posting are often used to this and post the title as is from the article. The idea being to help prevent editorializing and clickbait on the part of the poster. Every headline these days though seems to be some variation of blatant clickbait or so and so “slams” this or “destroys” that. At this point I probably trust randos on the internet to make headlines more than publishers.

      • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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        10 months ago

        It’s a tough call. Many forums have a rule against changing the title at all.

        Those forums are wrong. A title should accurately reflect the content. We can’t choose the title other websites choose… but we can choose a title for our posts and we should take advantage of that.

        Also - if you find yourself posting on a forum with that rule, just ignore it. And then tell them the title you typed out yourself was copy/pasted. They’ll have no way of knowing since so many news services A/B test titles anyway.

        Here’s the tile I would’ve used: “Police Alert Parents to iPhone’s Automatic Contact Sharing Feature” — I think we can agree it’s more accurate than the deliberately unclear title this post currently has.

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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          10 months ago

          Those rules exist because so many topics are so politically or socially loaded that allowing everyone to edit them to what they see fit creates an incoherent mess and provokes arguments.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    This is absurdly stupid to panic about, and the police “warning” people about it should be embarrassed.

    Name Drop is no different than a user taking 10 seconds to manually type a number.

    • artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social
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      10 months ago

      Somebody who clicks “accept transfer” on the screen without knowing why it popped up deserves whatever comes next. Only exception being young kids who shouldn’t have access to a fully functional device anyway. If there’s some sort of “Toddler mode” on iPhone, then yeah def have airdrop disabled when in that mode. This is a parenting issue. We should be far more concerned about child advertising and parents putting their entire kid’s life story on Facebook.

      Also, why are police fear mongering on social media in any official capacity. Seems pretty damn unprofessional.

    • Jim P.@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Except if there is the possibility of it happening without their knowledge/consent, the other person could use even the name for further social engineering. It’s better to not give out any information automatically. Granted the user has to approve a Name Drop share but the screen does display the user’s contact info that would be shared either way, so if the phone is visible to the person trying to obtain the info, they’d still be able to see it even if the target doesn’t approve the share.

      It is a bit overhyped since it’s not like someone shady can go around sniffing everyone’s contacts automatically, but it’s still worth tuning off for anyone who is privacy or security conscious.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Only if you actively enable airdrop and put your phone within a couple inches. You can’t leave airdrop on. It can’t happen accidentally.

        • B0rax@feddit.de
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          10 months ago

          That is not true, airdrop can stay on indefinitely when set to „contacts“ which is enough for NameDrop.