Yeah, it limits the AirDrop functionality of being able to receive files from everyone (including people not in your contacts list) to a 10-minute stretch after tapping the button to enable it. Instead of the current state of it being one of the three options "Off" "Contacts" and "Everyone" (←continually on).
Arguably this is an overall "safer" setting, but it's awfully convenient that they're altering this existing functionality, starting first in China before rolling it out globally, just as Chinese dissidents are starting to use it for effective information sharing during this civil unrest.
Yeah, it limits the AirDrop functionality of being able to receive files from everyone (including people not in your contacts list) to a 10-minute stretch after tapping the button to enable it. Instead of the current state of it being one of the three options "Off" "Contacts" and "Everyone" (←continually on).
Arguably this is an overall "safer" setting, but it's awfully convenient that they're altering this existing functionality, starting first in China before rolling it out globally, just as Chinese dissidents are starting to use it for effective information sharing during this civil unrest.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.