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BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Porn
redletterdave writes "The new BBM in BlackBerry 10 has the option to automatically share what music you're listening to as one's status update. As it turns out, this BBM feature in BlackBerry 10 can actually share anything you're listening to with your BBM network, including videos. Therefore, any videos viewed in the BlackBerry Z10 browser or media player will be displayed for all of one's BlackBerry contacts to see, even if you don't want your network to know you're watching certain videos."
The bigger WOW here is that this is even a story. The key phrase in the summary is: "HAS THE OPTION" as in it's an optional feature. You know. One that you can turn off or on. This is the same thing Netflix recently added, where it will post what you're watching if you turn the option on. Here's a novel idea, if you're watching porn on your blackberry, turn off sharing or never enable it to begin with.
Even by the standards of the usual ROT13ifying overlords of slashdot, I gotta say... uh..????
Three Squirrels
There is no way you can't turn this off, and really, who watches porn on their phone? That just seems like a terrible life choice. Small screen, horrible data speeds, smudgy finger marks.
It is an option, so you can turn it off They should add the option to shock the user when they pick up the phone. You know, with an option to turn that feature off.
The article is written in a way that implies the feature is turned on when you get the phone.
Well it's still a problem, if you have unsuspecting users, and users who don't want to muck with settings. All people on slashdot know that these phones are computers but they are also marketed as just phones and importantly, many people will just finger-navigate their way to the music player or video player and play the files they put there with an USB cable or something.. Even knowledgeable people might do that, not willing to waste their time learning all the GUIs in their phones, or even changing the wallpaper etc.
Blackberry Messenger. I had to google it.
Be seeing you...
More accurately, you'll probably be fine because I13 and AFH are probably now more focused on pulling off some epic ass-covering.
Honestly I wonder why people would want to turn this on to begin with. It's of no-ones business what I'm listening to, or whether I'm listening to anything at any time. And that has nothing to do with porn as such.
From TFA:
that private users may want to toggle "off."
Implying that this feature is on by default. Bad idea. Such a feature should be off and very, very difficult to enable accidentally.
Have gnu, will travel.
Implying that this feature is on by default. Bad idea.
That would be a bad idea. Good thing that it's OFF by default.
The article and summary are ridiculous.
Required reading for internet skeptics
It's off by default.
This is a non-story.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Still don't know what it is, I can only assume it is 'Big Beautiful Men' (The counter of BBW).
In that case, uh, pass?
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Editors: When using TLAs in TFS, spell them out the first time. I would wager that most people here have never heard of BBM.
I guess the BB stands for BlackBerry, but the M? Music, Meeting, Messenger, Melody, Micropenis, Movies, Microcosmos, Multimedia...?
Who knows, and at this point, WGAS?
The target market is probably teenagers and advertisers. To a lesser extent adult gossips.
I'm sure you don't want your wife to see any porn you've visited,
I don't know about that. "Study this, honey. Be ready for tonight."
Have gnu, will travel.