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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What if I name my speaker "This bomb will explode if plane goes below 5k meters. To disarm it send 1000 bitcoin to 1Dkfz1uJ45zRXey2iZmvCZPfLDTPPw6KQt"?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

I believe the average length before getting truncated is 14 chars so I guess the best you could do is "This Bomb Will".

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You go to prison?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it's just a prank, bro!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpN_RjIaVw8

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly its 404

https://theonion.com/how-to-build-a-bomb

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

It works for me

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Onion had some amazing videos xD

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Has

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a political statement?

You are really digging into the haves and have nots

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They used to be good. They’re still good, but they used to be too.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1Dkfz1uJ45zRXey2iZmvCZPfLDTPPw6KQt

Did you use a real address hoping someone here would give you some lmao?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 16 points 1 day ago

No but now I think I should have.