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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 Retric »

jacobrast wrote: post #115
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…

Why would a terrorist want to plant a Bluetooth device on someone else's bag when all it would accomplish is a minor delay of one flight and would result in a prison sentence after security camera review??

Why stop at one bag for one flight?

> would result in a prison sentence

That doesn’t seem like a significant deterrent here.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

bluescrn wrote: post #113
basilikum wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest calling the police and saying you have a bomb planted on flight XYZ and want 100000$ or you'll detonate it, is probably also enough.

But bombs apparently use bluetooth now, so he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...

> he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...

Reliably bomb detonation is on the roadmap for Bluetooth 8.

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

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Post by datadrivenangel »

mysterydip wrote: post #117
lazide wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We need to put a checkpoint before the checkpoint so that never happens!

In Uganda they make you get out of your car and go through a metal detector before getting to the pre-security security screening at the actual airport... 3-4 layers...

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

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Post by hackyhacky »

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…

This is the SNL sketch in question: https://www.tiktok.com/@hamtelevision/video/7276358099089231...

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

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Post by lostlogin »

NegativeK wrote: post #81
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.

There are simpler ways to disrupt a flight.

Are there? Setting a device name might be the lowest effort thing I can think of.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

netsharc wrote: post #86
eudamoniac wrote: post #59

Even if you discount the possibility of an intentional threat as silly, this could have been a warning from someone under duress. Turning around was the right move.

How does that scenario work? Someone's under duress because presumably there's a terrorist on board. He lets the crew know there's a bomb onboard. The plane turns around, and the terrorist... lets the plane land safely? OK maybe the bomb blows up when it crosses some longitude, because this is like the movie Speed, and turning around means the plane never cross that longitude.. If you mean another type of duress, nam…

> How does that scenario work?

It’s funnier than that. If they had turned off the ‘bomb’ the plane would have just carried on.

The event is bizarre.

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

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Post by stouset »

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…

If you’re a terrorist, I’m pretty sure you can think of dramatically more consequential things to do than cause a handful of planes to potentially divert. That’s a wildly pointless prank for something that will invariably wind up with you being arrested.

Why do that when you could simply attack people waiting in the security line? That would actually cause terror and shut down an entire airport for days.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #2

> "Free Palestine, F Zionists" Does the FBI usually get involved when someone says these words in public in the US?

> when someone says these words in public in the US?

Depending on where the plane was, it might not even have happened in the US.

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