FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights • Hacker News Board

Re: FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

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Post by mruts » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 9:51 PM UTC

kingosticks wrote: post #179

mruts wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one actually cares. Weed is also banned on planes, TSA agents have found some of mine on my carry on a couple times, and no one bats an eye.

So they left it in the case? You'd have thought they'd at least dispose of it in the same way they do with bottles of water, even if they don't kick-up a fuss over it.

Yeah. I was surprised to. Might be an official policy or something. I've previously had weed found in California and wasn't surprised that they looked the other way. I was surprised however when they let me keep it even though I wasn't going to or from a state with legalization.

Re: FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

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Post by RikNieu » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 12:27 AM UTC

r0m4n0 wrote: post #224

Just adding my mbp anecdote. I purchased my MacBook Pro in 2015. A year ago I noticed the top 15% of my trackpad wasn’t clicking. I did a little research and saw that this is sometimes the first symptom of an expanded battery and to bring it in. I finally made an appointment a few months ago and came in to have it investigated further. In the appointment they told me they “disassembled and confirmed everything was fu…

Earlier this month I took my work MBP in for a recall for both the HDD and keyboard(I received an email from Apple notifying me about this).

The "geniuses" "checked" their system and told me there is no recall and I'll have to pay. I had to physically go on Apples site on my phone, enter my serial number and show them that the recall applies to my machine.

With much sighing they accepted the machine and "made a note" on the service sheet, so the tech's would confirm.

My next personal computer will not be an Apple.

Re: FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

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Post by chairmanmow » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Just wondering, I have this Mac, and I had the battery replaced, but I doubt there's any way the FAA can tell that, maybe they can. Wonder what'll happen if I try to fly with it.

Re: FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

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Post by sjwright » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 4:18 AM UTC

jhabdas wrote: post #159

sjwright wrote: post #68

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Be aware that any valid normal user account password can decrypt your hard disk—the exception being a guest account which forces the entire computer to restart into a separate, fully neutered system.

Assuming you haven't switched partition schemes to something like LUKS with pre-boot authentication.

I'm assuming it's a MacBook that is being operated normally by a normal person.