Andddd now everyone knows that an arbitrary text string in a device hostname is enough to ground a flight.

lostlogin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The other incident mentioned is worse I think. It wasn’t a potential threat, it was stating an opinion.

“a Wi-Fi hotspot named "Free Palestine, F Zionists" prompted the pilot to issue a warning to the cabin, telling the passenger responsible that they had "30 seconds" to remove the name or the FBI would meet the aircraft.”

	▲	dghlsakjg 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Given that the Palestinian Liberation Organization has an actual history of multiple hijackings, this makes a slight amount of sense. Of course, someone planning to hijack a flight would probably never try to do so with WiFi ssid’s, not to mention that hardened cockpit doors and passenger attitudes mean that PLO style hijackings are now impossible. Of course, telling people to turn off the network name (bomb, Palestine or otherwise) and everything will be fine, is a tacit admission that the whole thing is theater.

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basilikum an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

To be honest calling the police and saying you have a bomb planted on flight XYZ and want 100000$ or you'll detonate it, is probably also enough.

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bluescrn an hour ago | parent [-]

But bombs apparently use bluetooth now, so he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...

	▲	lostlogin 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away... Reliably bomb detonation is on the roadmap for Bluetooth 8.