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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47299437
United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, […]
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The real reason is because some jackass turned their Bluetooth speaker on during a flight.
I suspect the personality profiles of people with who would make the joke of calling their bluetooth device “bomb” and people who would blow up an airplane full of people is almost diametrically opposite.
If they thought it was real, why wouldn’t they land at the closest airport? Why fly all the way back to the origin point?
Because the pilot told them they would turn this flight around!
Also, maybe clearance wasn’t possible on closer airports?
That is one of the most bizarre articles I have ever read. Why in the world are we not allowed to know what the “four letter word” is?
To stop voids of personality do copycat incidents
Loss
Bomb
Like, maybe, probably? But why are we not allowed to know?
Because there would be a million copycats & air travel would grind to a halt.
A million.
That’s what I expect it was.
Some days you just can’t get rid of a four-letter word
Who says you’re not allowed? The airline probably didn’t disclose which word it actually was, but the article does gives you a suggestion.
If you named a Bluetooth speaker “Just an ordinary Bluetooth speaker, nothing to see here”, would that be seen as an implied terrorist threat?
Try naming it “Fuck ICE” and see what happens . . . or don’t, because for whatever reason the special snowflakes of that criminal org get really pissy when members of the public offer them honest and heartfelt feedback.
I guess you need to rename all your Bluetooth bombs before flying now. Thanks Obama.
Thanks, O-bomb-a.
🎶 But you turned me out, baby 🎶
Should have named it “boom box”.
Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight
The real reason for the turn-around
They’re lucky there weren’t any power mods, they would have that person banned from 38 different subreddits that post identical content before you could even mutter the 4 letter word!
must have smelled so bad
Flight was too heavy
It only had one person onboard: your mom
It is at least less crazy than the Snapchat incident
https://gizmodo.com/teen-fine-joke-text-taliban-jets-scramble-in-spain-1851192668
We need to stop the crazy paranoia now that 9/11 is 25 years behind us. If someone is going to through the effort to blow up a plane they probably aren’t going to be dumb enough name there bluetooth speaker “bomb”
link
So what I’m getting from this, is that you should use a VPN if you’re using the airports wifi.
Like today’s sponsor…
What if I name my speaker “This bomb will explode if plane goes below 5k meters. To disarm it send 1000 bitcoin to 1Dkfz1uJ45zRXey2iZmvCZPfLDTPPw6KQt”?
1Dkfz1uJ45zRXey2iZmvCZPfLDTPPw6KQt
Did you use a real address hoping someone here would give you some lmao?
No but now I think I should have.
You go to prison?
But it’s just a prank, bro!
The Onion had some amazing videos xD
Has
did ben stiller teach you people nothing?
Just changed my phone’s Bluetooth name to “Not A Bomb”. Hopefully no one is confused by it.
Now go on a flight with it active and see how well that goes.
Almost every single aspect of airport security before and after you board is written in blood.
Also wise to spray paint it on your luggage, just so they know.
Someone named the speaker “bomb”.
I mean, a 12 year old is more likely than not to name a cylindrical boombox a ‘bomb’ and forget about it. Hopefully a sincere apology will suffice instead of a ban or criminal charges.
According to discussion about this elsewhere, there’s a bluetooth speaker model named ‘Bomb’ that defaults to that name, whose website, humorously, has been rate limited due to I’m sure more traffic than they’ve ever had in its entire existence.
Honestly, I don’t see any way this could result in criminal charges. It’s a Bluetooth name, not someone actually threatening with a weapon. It’s like walking around with a fake gun. You can’t be charged with anything without actual intent to deceive people, and good luck proving that.
At most, this is a civil charge. The airline might try to get some money out of this person.
Naming a Bluetooth device “bomb” could absolutely be intentionally disruptive or threatening.
Im not saying thats provable beyond reasonable doubt in this case.
You can still be prosecuted for things you didn’t intend, the laws are usually less harsh. Manslaughter vs Murder for instance. I have no idea if a speaker whose name auto sets to bomb is illegal though. Seems dumb if it were
It could absolutely result in a criminal charge. If it results in a criminal conviction or not is another question.
But any prosecutor could make the argument that it’s a terroristic threat.
Poor chap. Chances are the person was flying economy. No way that person can give enough to recoup even the lawyer fees for the airline
Yep. They might still try it to punish them/set an example. They’re not getting enough out of it to be worth it though, so odds are nothing happens.
okay but, how does it make sense to fly during a longer period if you know that you’re transporting a bomb? (i know I shouldn’t try to make any sense out of this but still…)
What do you mean? It’s an 8 hour flight to mallorca from NY. 2<8
A certain four-letter word
Poot?
You can’t joke about that stuff in an airplane setting, they recirculate that air.
Did you ever see that youtube video from like 2 decades ago where the woman is standing up on the airplane while everyone else is seated, (and looking annoyed), while she waves her arms around yelling “THIS MAN FARTED!!! THIS MAN FARTED WHILE SEATED RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!! WE’RE SO CLOSE OUR ELBOWS TOUCHED BRIEFLY!!! HE FARTED!!! THAT WAS NOT ME THAT FARTED!!!”
And everybody else is just looking at her like “Lady…shut the fuck up”.
There are some youtube videos I wish I saved. Thats one.
