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

submitted 5 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 4 points 5 months ago

I have a Bluetooth speaker I bought at Wally World that's called a G-Boom, and shows up as such when turning on discovered devices. It shows up even when turned off. Might have been something as dumb as that.

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