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Xirdustoday at 11:44 AM1 replyview on HN

> Hard to imagine at least one person didn’t see the device name and immediately brush it off as entirely unimportant.

There are hundreds of BT devices everywhere that people waiting for a flight hang out. Without automatic scanning for the specific purpose of catching weird names, it'd be near impossible for the weird name to ever show up for anyone except the owner. And most devices don't advertise their BT name unless in pairing mode, so no, it wouldn't show up in the security screening either.


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voidpointertoday at 11:56 AM

So, how did it eventually show up? Owner's phone goes off/airplane-mode, watch starts advertising; someone else wants to connect their BT headphones and sees the name of the watch?

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