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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Bomb

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 7 hours ago

Love. "Love is in the air" is still under copyright protection and the airline just couldn't take a chance of being sued...

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Like, maybe, probably? But why are we not allowed to know?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Because there would be a million copycats & air travel would grind to a halt.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

There have not been a million copycats to any disruptors of air travel, why would there be in this case? There wouldn't.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

A million.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 11 hours ago

That's what I expect it was.