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United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by stackghost »

ValentineC wrote: post #47
Insimwytim wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those new obfuscated links prevent old.reddit to work. Is there a way for you to post proper direct links?

> Those new obfuscated links prevent old.reddit to work. Can't you just set the old theme in your profile? That's what I do.

I got permanently banned for the "Christianity is just worshipping a Jewish zombie who is his own father who will save you if you invite him into your head, symbolically drink his blood, and eat his flesh" copypasta, so not everyone can log in :)

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by koolba »

xrd wrote: post #85

What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it. This reminds me of the SNL sketch where TSA employees had no answer for someone bringing two separate bottles of 3.9 ounces onto the plane. I'm sure Sean Duffy, of Real World and now Sec of T…

> What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it.

I make it a point to hold up the whole line until it is my turn to go through the xray. It gets fun when they mandate a pat down in lieu of the millimeter wave scanner but refuse to have someone available for it.

It’s the only way to honestly say you have kept your bags under watch. If anybody tries to send in my bags without me , I immediately speak up in a loud stern voice, “That is not your bag!”

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by lazide »

mikeocool wrote: post #3

> a flight attendant told passengers over the PA system that they "must turn off Bluetooth immediately," or else the aircraft would have to turn around. So if the person just takes back their bomb threat everything is ok? Or did they think the terrorist labeled their Bluetooth bomb “bomb” and this would disable it?

Apparently it wasn’t a threat - a kid had a commercial Bluetooth speaker that names itself as ‘bomb’. No one on the plane did anything intentionally.

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by lazide »

outside1234 wrote: post #45

Someone needs to explain to me how the name of a Bluetooth device has any bearing on anything. Isn’t the real security not letting a bomb on the plane? Also, now anyone who wants to disrupt a flight can switch their WiFi or Bluetooth name to Bomb or “Free Palestine” and the flight gets disrupted? Get out of here.

Just wait until you hear what a bad joke while waiting in the TSA line can do to you day.

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by koolba »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #13

The Reddit thread on this was equal parts amazing and hilarious. Real time insights from not one, but 9, redditors on the flight. Main post: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/57lugEMhxl All the redditors on board: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/Fh2KoqG4SY A passenger with a hilariously illtimed username: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/W86tRI6ZVf

Very interesting, but a hell of a way to dox yourself for being on the flight manifest.

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by dylan604 »

Bender wrote: post #8

People prank others all the time with goofy names [1] (2014) So are we at the point where that will change and devices will have to just assign random sanitized dictionary names? "Connect to my 'apple horse bunny farm'" There are programs that can flood an area with tens of thousands of fake access points (scapy-fakeap) . Or thousands of drones for that matter. [2] [1] - https://observer.com/2014/03/park-slope-kiddie…

I really don't appreciate you posting my unhashed password to the public like that

Re: United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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Post by bdcravens »

lazide wrote: post #89
xrd wrote: post #85

What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it. This reminds me of the SNL sketch where TSA employees had no answer for someone bringing two separate bottles of 3.9 ounces onto the plane. I'm sure Sean Duffy, of Real World and now Sec of T…

The same thing that is stopping them from suicide bombing the super crowded security checkpoint line before ID checks. Nothing really.

Or going into the baggage claim area with a bag containing an explosive device, then acting like they grabbed the wrong bag and putting it back on the carousel, and then leaving.
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