A ‘certain four-letter word’ sparked a security incident.

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, […]

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    67·
    17 hours ago

    According to discussion about this elsewhere, there’s a bluetooth speaker model named ‘Bomb’ that defaults to that name, whose website, humorously, has been rate limited due to I’m sure more traffic than they’ve ever had in its entire existence.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          25·
          4 hours ago

          I don’t know, I think airlines should have a responsibility to address potential bomb threats on their commercial flights but that might just be me…

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              12·
              3 hours ago

              Not saying that’s logical, but it’s something the airlines have to act on. They have policies in place that they need to follow, and even if it’s a finer comb than it needs to be it’s better than having no policy at all.

              People forget how many skyjackings there were in the 80s and 90s when they say airport security is worthless. Like “How many incidents have they prevented?” “Only all the ones that didn’t happen…”