Turning around for an SSID named Bomb

Cherokee_Cruiser

Cherokee_Cruiser

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EWR-MAD, air returned.


I don’t get it. I’m sure they’re just following procedures established by the airline and the security theater.


Never in history has a real terrorist been stupid enough to name his internet as “Bomb,” and then blow up a plane. Real terrorists just blow up the plane, no warnings or hints.


If I was king, we continue to Madrid.



Thoughts?
 
In the olden internet days when there was just an ethernet option in the hotel room, I called an Apple Airport Express and I had all sorts of mischievous SSIDs knowing full well several hundred coworkers at the crew hotel would see it. Excellent in places like AMS where we basically fully inhabited the hotel.

Personally? I’d confer with the security team and if we all agreed to continue, I’d have no problem with doing so.
 
I’m not gonna fault the crew or the airline for being conservative. Better to deal with it over the states than dealing with an issue over the tracks. We also dealt with a Level 4 the day before I believe it was, so yea, not playing around.
 
Get dispatch and corporate security on a satcom call and we'll make a decision together. Ultimately it's the company's airplane, and as long as it doesn't involve doing something stupid, I'll take it wherever they tell me to.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
EWR-MAD, air returned.


I don’t get it. I’m sure they’re just following procedures established by the airline and the security theater.


Never in history has a real terrorist been stupid enough to name his internet as “Bomb,” and then blow up a plane. Real terrorists just blow up the plane, no warnings or hints.


If I was king, we continue to Madrid.



Thoughts?
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Before 1972 nobody ever held an Olympic team of a nation hostage and resulted in multiple fatalities. Before 1966 nobody shot and killed people from the UT Tower. Before 9-11...
 
WacoFan said:
Before 1972 nobody ever held an Olympic team of a nation hostage and resulted in multiple fatalities. Before 1966 nobody shot and killed people from the UT Tower. Before 9-11...
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Correct. But looking at airliner bombings, the bad guys don’t do anything to warn you ahead of time. Naming a SSID “bomb” would qualify as that. There’s ZERO REASON for a real terrorist to name his Internet as “bomb” if that’s indeed what he’s about to do.
 
T/O w/FSII said:
Well it was a Bluetooth speaker.

But seeing that our misinformation expert CC got every fact wrong I won’t hold it against you
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Well I apologize. When it first came out it sounded like someone’s phone device internet name as bomb. But I stand corrected, it’s a Bluetooth device, which would still show up similar to an Internet name in phone settings when one goes to search for nearby devices/networks.
 
i feel like people forget we’re in an active armed conflict with another nation state at this moment in time

the good news is you probably won’t have to do carpet dance if you’re wrong
 
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