alt Hacker NewsAccording to the article, it was a Fitbit device belonging to a teenager... Chances are, the kid selected that nickname for the device a long while ago and forgot about it, and was probably unaware that the device was using Bluetooth at all, and that they should turn off their fitness tracker when the announcement came through...
At the same time, some people in the comments under the article are more or less calling for the death penalty for the kid...
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Awful joke. There have to be at least some consequences for the kid, like getting banned for flying United for 10 years.
> At the same time, some people in the comments under the article are more or less calling for the death penalty for the kid...
Equivocating and straw-manning only weaken your argument.
Do we want this kind of thing to happen again? The kid was 16, ok. The columbine shooters were 17.
Throw the book at him, he should have known better.
Pretty absurd stuff. Obviously if FAA safety first is going to apply not to aviation employees but to something that is easy to DOS attack as the consumer this doesn't work.. They could at least implement a policy of scanning Bluetooth and similar beacons at security gates though. More theatre, more fun at least doesn't mean more turning around.
> some people in the comments
The commenters' status as people (I presume here you mean biological humans) seems unlikely to me.