I dunno.. if we just assume everyone around us is gonna be an asshole then we can never have nice things. In order to be able to take the subway I'm willing to assume that not every person in the car is gonna blast their personal music preference at max volume. Yes it is possible for them to do that but that doesn't mean it's on me to invent super smart headphones to block that out. At some point, in some cases, "please don't" is in fact a valid security response.

Wireless communications are inherently jammable. Where is the border between this and a bunch of microwaves jamming cell reception? I’m not saying Apple should not have done a better job in anti-spam measures, but “please don’t” is a basis for many nice things we have.

This isn't a security issue though. It's just annoying. It also requires physical proximity.

We do live in a world where expecting people around you to not be arseholes is a reasonable strategy.

The only real difference here between this and people playing loud shitty music on their phones or whatever is that it's harder to locate the source.