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mevinyavin Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity. I don't suppose the thought ever even entered the 16-year-old's mind. Reply
chaos215bar2 mevinyavin said: Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity. I don't suppose the thought ever even entered the 16-year-old's mind. And why should it have? If someone's going to bring an actual bomb on a plane, are people really so stupid they think it will advertise itself on Bluetooth and be named "BOMB"? I suppose these people also think the WiFi networks named "CIA Van 12" or whatnot are an actual CIA van? The problem here was not the teen or the Bluetooth speaker's name. At a certain point, ignorance and paranoia at the level displayed by the passengers and flight attendants here just isn't a reasonable excuse. If I had been on that flight, I'd be absolutely livid . And not at the teen. Reply
roll20s No doubt renamed by the owner after purchase There are multiple BT speakers with the word "bomb" in their name. Hellottec even makes a BT speaker just called "BOMB." I wouldn't say there's "no doubt" that it was renamed by the owner. Reply
Faiakes What exactly was the concern here? That there was a bomb that advertised itself? Reply
chaos215bar2 Faiakes said: What exactly was the concern here? That there was a bomb that advertised itself? It's the only explanation that makes even a little bit of sense. You could speculate that the flight crew thought the name was a message or even a threat. Say, someone who knew about a bomb, but couldn't say so out loud, so reprogrammed their speaker. But if that were true, then telling people to turn off Bluetooth devices just brings everyone's attention to their Bluetooth settings and in the process announces to the actual presumed bomber that you're on to their threat. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. There are going to be security case studies written about this. Good thing the speaker wasn't named after a late 90's gaming in-joke or something. Might have gotten everyone on board strip-searched on the way out. Reply
Daelith 'Twas a smart bomb, my good sir. Reply
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