Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/21/passengers-with-mobile-wifi-ne.html
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Ok, I’ll call mine “Not a remote detonator”.
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I’ve been to an apartment building where wifi names are a comedy battle: “FBI Surveillance Van #8”, “Your Laundry Smells Like Weed”, “Mom Knows You’re Touching Yourself.”
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They were just doing what Penn Jillette told them to do:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961119143337/http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/security.html
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I can’t remember where i saw this, i think it was at my apt complex but its been a while since i screenshotted this
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My mobile access point SSID is “C:\VirusInstaller.exe -q --infect”. Surprisingly few people try to connect to it.
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Ours used to be a riff on that one. Now it is ‘The Guild of Calamitous Intent’
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If i recall a friend noticed a wifi point by him that was called something along the lines of “Hack this wifi” and after some time he later noticed that it had been changed to “Challenge Accepted”
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Mine is called “$2.99 a minute”, surprisingly it works too, although I never get where the $2.99 a minute goes…
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well if El douche and his girlfriends neighbours have a sense of humour they can change their network names to something with csis in it.
csis van #8
csis tactical unit
csis hidden cam deployment unit
csis espionage with ur mom unit
etc etc
I think I have a good sense of humor, so if I were the airport officers involved I would definitely have been laughing at this as I escorted them off the plane.
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The TSA is not known for their sense of humor.
They thrive on stuff like this…“hahaha…think it’s funny now do you, just have a seat this chair for 4 hours while we run some background checks…”
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Reporting is unclear — was the issue the AP name (as the headline here seems to imply), or that its owner refused crew instructions to turn it off?
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If only more bad amateur comedians could be escorted off flights.
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Seriously? You want to fly WestJet with no cabin crew?
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Maybe they’re bad professional comedians that work a side hustle as cabin crew?
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Sounds like both to me, like if the AP had been turned off when the crew asked there might not have been a problem at all, and if it hadn’t been so unfortunately named the passengers might have been given a stern talking to rather than escorted off.
I don’t see why anyone with a WiFi network for their remote detonator would call it that, but at the same time, there’s nothing to be gained by stressing the ignorant out, so this seems like a fantastically rude way to behave. Ya gotta have a thought to how people are going to respond!
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Seems like “My Little Pony” would be a better name for a real detonator
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that often goes a long way…
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FAs shouldn’t have to deal with that shit.
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