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

The Onion had some amazing videos xD

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

Has

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 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 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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