{"id":1031,"date":"2019-06-08T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2021-10-29T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:03:17","slug":"apple-airdrop-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Apple AirDrop Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple AirDrop comes pre\u2013installed on all iPhones and is an app that allows people within 30 feet of you to send you images.\u00a0 The default setting is to receive files from \u201ceveryone\u201d without asking your permission.\u00a0 This allows a complete stranger within 30 feet of you to send any explicit images anonymously and without your permission.\u00a0 Not only is there a risk of explicit photos being sent to a child, but also the risk of predators using it to identify a victim. Typically the child’s name is the name of the device, (e.g. \u201cSusans iPhone\u201d) which the predator can see is a \u201cnearby device.\u201d\u00a0 From there it is easy enough for the predator to figure out the victim’s appearance, name, and location simply by the instinctive disgusted reaction of viewing the inappropriate message.<\/p>\n

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Click the \u2018Settings\u2019 icon on the main menu, go to \u2018General\u2019 and then \u2018AirDrop\u2019. Once you enter the application settings, you\u2019ll find that the receive option is set to \u2018Everyone\u2019. Change this by choosing between \u2018Receiving Off\u2019, \u2018Contacts Only\u2019, and \u2018Everyone\u2019. We recommend ‘Contacts Only’.<\/p>\n

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Original Article on Mobocip.com (click to read) Apple AirDrop comes pre\u2013installed on all iPhones and is an app that allows people within 30 feet of you to send you images.\u00a0 The default setting is to receive files from \u201ceveryone\u201d without asking your permission.\u00a0 This allows a complete stranger within 30 feet of you to send […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Original Article on Mobocip.com (click to read)<\/a>\r\n\r\nApple AirDrop comes pre\u2013installed on all iPhones and is an app that allows people within 30 feet of you to send you images.\u00a0 The default setting is to receive files from \u201ceveryone\u201d without asking your permission.\u00a0 This allows a complete stranger within 30 feet of you to send any explicit images anonymously and without your permission.\u00a0 Not only is there a risk of explicit photos being sent to a child, but also the risk of predators using it to identify a victim. Typically the child's name is the name of the device, (e.g. \u201cSusans iPhone\u201d) which the predator can see is a \u201cnearby device.\u201d\u00a0 From there it is easy enough for the predator to figure out the victim's appearance, name, and location simply by the instinctive disgusted reaction of viewing the inappropriate message.\r\n

To Fix:<\/h2>\r\nClick the \u2018Settings\u2019 icon on the main menu, go to \u2018General\u2019 and then \u2018AirDrop\u2019. Once you enter the application settings, you\u2019ll find that the receive option is set to \u2018Everyone\u2019. Change this by choosing between \u2018Receiving Off\u2019, \u2018Contacts Only\u2019, and \u2018Everyone\u2019. We recommend 'Contacts Only'.\r\n\r\n ","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,1],"tags":[28,27,29],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-media-articles","category-news","tag-airdrop","tag-iphone","tag-predators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}