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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I think a simple rule of "Better safe than sorry" applies here. It is as if a robber comes with a plastic gun that looks like a real one. Nobody wants to figure out if it is real or not.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

Best case, inconvenience. Worst case, death. Being stuck in a metal tube kilometres above the earth I’m going to lean towards caution.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This resembled the actual thing less than finger guns resemble the real ones.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I know that in modern times most toy guns look nothing like a real weapon (colorful, looking weird, and so on), but you can still find some guns like this one: