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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."

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  1. Re:Wow by All_One_Mind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Uh. Uh. Uh. by rueger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even by the standards of the usual ROT13ifying overlords of slashdot, I gotta say... uh..????

  3. For the non Blackberry owners, BBM means: by Nyder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blackberry Messenger. I had to google it.

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    Be seeing you...
  4. Re:Is it turned on by default? by narcc · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article is written in a way that implies the feature is turned on when you get the phone.

    Which it is not.

    I even double-checked on my wife's phone as she hadn't yet setup BBM. It was off.

    You must explicitly turn that feature on.