NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne has been caught in an embarrassing pornography gaffe while presenting an online safety talk at a Gold Coast high school.
Hayne's active browsing was being shown on a screen at the school, featuring mostly sports images, when a pornographic website was displayed on the screen to the 200-plus students in attendance at Robina State High School.
Norton Security, on whose behalf Hayne was presenting the talk, said afterwards the images had come from another device that had entered the network.
"It's unfortunate and all I can say (is) it definitely was not Jarryd's device," Hayne's co-host from Norton, Nick Savvides, said.
The original demonstration was set up to highlight the dangers of joining open WiFi networks, where "middle men" could seize data and view any ongoing activity on the phone while connected without the user's knowledge.
While Hayne's activity was being captured on a laptop and transmitted on the big screen, Mr Savvides indicated an unknown person joined the public network and had their activity shown.
"Connecting to open networks, people can see what you're doing and in this case, inject unwanted materials."
Hayne looked stunned by the appearance of the images, which remained on the screen for a number of seconds and included lewd acts and a topless woman, leaving the teenage students in laughter and requiring a teacher to step in to calm them down.
"It was (awkward)," Hayne said
"I shut my phone straight away so that way I was logged off.
"Wow."
It's not believed Hayne was due to give any further talks at other schools.
The demonstration has been shown before at a number of talks elsewhere without Hayne and Mr Savvides said such an issue had not arisen before.
He also said they would be unable to ascertain exactly whose device the website had come from.
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