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		yy77 on July 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread infor... airdrop is actually like a security hole when Apple set "open to everyone" by default. There are already quite some cases using it to send * photos as sex harassment. Apple should set default to "only contacts".

neilalexander on July 10, 2019 [–]

I'm pretty sure it defaults to contacts-only by default. At least it did on my devices bought in the UK.

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