Slightly off topic - I work at a music festival as a stage tech sometimes. One time on this small festival, in the middle of the night, I was enjoying a after work beer and a bartender came up to me and asked 'you're the sound guy right? We have trouble connecting with the Bluetooth speaker in the bar.' - not really my expertise but I'll have a look, sure.

It was only because we were standing next to each other checking the Bluetooth devices on our phones and it was on different spots in the list on the respective phone that I realized that the device was named 'not connected'.

I read this on another outlet, and they had the audacity to blame United for "yet another incident". This isn't United's fault. When you name your bt device "bomb" and the flight attendants ask several times to turn off Bluetooth, turn the damn thing off. Don't be a shitwanker, and keep it on. I swear. People are such assholes everywhere.

friendly reminder that what you think is a clever WiFi or Bluetooth name probably isn’t

Nonsense, Your Honor. As evidence I present Promised LAN, Nacho Wifi, and Hurts When IP.

paywalled, btw

before anyone bothers

"This_Hotspot_is_DA_BOMB"

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.

Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight

The real reason for the turn-around

Was it this https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speaker-2bh15

The real reason is because some jackass turned their Bluetooth speaker on during a flight.

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?

Someone named the speaker "bomb".

If you named a Bluetooth speaker “Just an ordinary Bluetooth speaker, nothing to see here”, would that be seen as an implied terrorist threat?

Just changed my phone's Bluetooth name to "Not A Bomb". Hopefully no one is confused by it.

I guess you need to rename all your Bluetooth bombs before flying now. Thanks Obama.

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"

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?