Australian professional rugby league player Jarryd Hayne could not get more embarrassed when his iPhone displayed pornographic Images and websites while presenting an online safety talk at a Gold Coast high school. The incident happened in front of more than 200 high school students.
The Guardian reported that the rugby star Jarryd Hayne's online browsing history was being shown on a screen at the school. What started out as mostly all sports images in his Safari, when a pornographic website was displayed on the screen to more than 200 students who attended Robina State High School.
Jarryd Hayne was in fact presenting the talk as a rep from Norton Security. The company later explained that the images had come from another device that had entered the same network. Nick Savvides said that it was unfortunate. But the important this was that it was definitely not Jarryd Hayne's device.
The demonstration was set up to highlight the dangers of joining open WiFi networks, where there could be middlemen who could seize data and view activity on the phone while connected without the user's knowledge. In fact, what happened to Hayne's phone was an exact example of the demo he was presenting to the students. The unfortunate side of the incident was it was being reflected onto the big screen. An unknown person joined the public network and had their activity displayed, instead.
#JarrydHayne’s school presentation on cyber security leaves sports star red-faced https://t.co/YAOJWCjrPT
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) November 7, 2016
According to Washington Post, the incident might have really proved the overall point of the presentation, which it was to show how dangerous it can be to join an open WiFi network. It smacked in the middle of Jarryd Hayne's demonstration and proved to everyone unsafe it is.
Rugby star Jerryd Hayne, who spent most of his previous year at the San Francisco 49ers practice squad before being promoted in December, now plays for the National Rugby League's Gold Coast Titans. Hayne left the NFL last spring because he didn't want to learn a new role and he wanted to make what was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt at qualifying for Fiji's Olympic rugby team.
