... and now that I’m thinking about it a bit more I wonder if it was less of a prank or a terror threat and more of a vulnerability assessment.
If I wanted to know what percentage of people had vulnerable iPhones, doing this would be a way to find out. Especially if the media reported more specifically like “23 people received the picture”.
The report only says it was sent to every iPhone. Doesn’t say it was received. Maybe that’s just style? But maybe it was deliberately obscuring how many people actually received the picture.
Re: the iPhone thingy: the phones need to have “airplay” turned on. Which, of course, only silly people would do. That’s like taking your private desk - the one where you keep your financial records, personal correspondence and the pin numbers for all your plastic- and setting it out on the street for just anyone to stroll by and help themselves to all your important info.
Which is a long way of saying “the only time I turn airplay on is when my laptop wants to talk to my phone or my iPod. Everything talks, and then airplay is turned off. I would not have received the photo.