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: 3, Insightful) by vux984 on Saturday December 24 2016, @10:06PM
So when someone makes a credible claim (via SSID) that they have a device known to burst into flames randomly,
How many note 7's spontaneously combusted? Really. Seriously. How many? Estimates are that under 100 out of 3-4 million phones overheated to the point of damaging the phone -- melting the case etc. Only a handful actually created any sort of actual incident (fire, explosion, injury) in doing so. So less than 1 in 30,000 chance of anything happening at all, and an order of magnitude less of it being even slightly serious.
I'm not pretending it's not a defective product that needed a recall; but this is just hysteria. I mean, what if he'd brought his 2006 ipod nano on board? Would any one even blink twice? Even in 2006?