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LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name
linuxwrangler writes A flight from LAX to London was delayed after a passenger reported seeing "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" as an available hotspot name and reported it to a flight attendant. The flight was taken to a remote part of the airport and delayed for several hours but "after further investigation, it was determined that no crime was committed and no further action will be taken." That seems an awfully low threshold for disrupting air traffic, since wireless access points can be had for just a few dollars these days.
The image in TFA shows a phone seeing the network as an AP. Chances are someone with a phone set up AP mode (fairly standard on Android devices).
The whole thing is dumb. The name clearly states that the network is "Al-Quida Free", as in there is no Al-Quida in it. Incredible that they managed to spell "Al-Quida" correctly but misspelled "nettwork".
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It's a wonderful future we live in. No purchase necessary. Terror is Free!! It's all over the news! BE TERRIFIED!
Ain't there 2 ways of parsing this? One is 'Al-Quida Free', but the whole name was 'Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork'. In other words, it could easily be parsed as 'Al-Quida: Free Terror Nettwork'. In other words, terror is available for free. The misspellings don't mean much, since English usually ain't the first language of Jihadis.
I've had the FBI parked outside my house for seven months now. I just can't figure out where "FBI surveillance van 42" is at.
The image in TFA shows a phone seeing the network as an AP. Chances are someone with a phone set up AP mode (fairly standard on Android devices).
That was my first thought. I know when I'm running my phone as a hot-spot, I have the SSID set to "FBI Surveillance Van 42".
Redundancy is good And also good.
Is that free as in beer or free as in speech?
Heart disease kills 600 million americans a year.
Out of a population of 300 million, that is pretty horrendous.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Ooh, how about Al Qaeda is spreading ebola using wifi, but you can only get it by using wifi during a thunderstorm, because the system needs the extra lightning power to move the virus.
They didn't spell Al-Qaeda correctly at all. That looks like the spelling of someone who's only ever heard the name and spelled it the way they were taught English.
Right. "u" and "i" should not be in Al-Qaeda.
Al-queda opposes beer, free or not, and free speech.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
400,000 / 32000 = 12.5 So twelve died and one is mostly dead?
Free as in terror.
The image in TFA shows a phone seeing the network as an AP. Chances are someone with a phone set up AP mode (fairly standard on Android devices).
That was my first thought. I know when I'm running my phone as a hot-spot, I have the SSID set to "FBI Surveillance Van 42".
Mine is simply 'Virus.net'. Best I've ever seen though is 'It burns when IP'
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