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from the changed-name-back-to-'bomb' dept.
An American flight was delayed due to a passenger changing the SSID of a device to "Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097":
Lucas Wojciechowski was on Virgin America flight 358 from San Francisco to Boston and told BBC News he photographed the hotspot after noticing it when he opened his laptop. A call went out for any passenger with a Note 7 to press their call button. Mr. Wojciechowski subsequently tweeted the crew's announcements from the late night flight after the pilot warned passengers they would have to make an emergency landing.
"This isn't a joke. We're going to turn on the lights (it's 11pm) and search everyone's bag until we find it. "This is the captain speaking. Apparently the plane is going to have to get diverted and searched if nobody fesses up soon." The owner came forward confessing there was no Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on board, but they had changed the name of their SSID wireless device to 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097.'
The real world is funnier than any joke.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:04PM
*rotflmao* I used to call my wireless "FBI Surveillance Vehicle" and one of my neighbor's was "It hurts when IP" does that mean I should be arrested for impersonating law enforcement and my neighbor be quarantined for a pending STD? Get real here. This was just hysteria plain and simple.
And fire in a crowded theater? Um no, since you have to have a device out and looking at the display of networks in range. Not something most people do, rather than just have sound vibrations hitting a sense organ designed to sense sound vibrations, most people have and can't shut off. More hysteria. I can say that I deliberately named my wireless in a hope that someone would read it and at least do a double take and laugh. I highly doubt any government organization for any country would ever use such an obvious name.
No further action? The actions taken were more than enough to cause distress to not only the victim of this harassment (as I will equate these actions with) but to everyone in the plane. The pilot might as well said there was an active ticking bomb on the plane (and it will go off if we travel slower than 50 mph).
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:26PM
And you're forgetting that even if someone DID have their device out searching for networks, it's still not like shouting "FIRE!" -- it's more like whispering "This lamp looks like a fire hazard" since mere possession of a Note 7 is no guarantee of the thing starting a fire. The probability is pretty low.