@Clive Robinson > due to the stupidity of Apple and it’s fanbois *Now* who's trying to "stir it up"? You undermine your own position when you engage in ad hominem attacks like that. The fact is, this was just another social engineering attack, not unlike swatting. I seem to recall a past incident where someone used a name for their WiFi hotspot that was considered threatening. There are countless other ways for jerks to be jerks on planes that have nothing to do with AirDrop or Apple in any way that makes it, according to the article author, "the most alarming aspect of this incident". > This sort of over reaction nonsense will carry on untill the idiots in charge suffer penalties for behaving the way they do… Why single out those people? Yes, they overreacted, but can we only come to that conclusion *in hindsight* or would it have been easy to determine in the moment? The same question is at the heart of the swatting problem. The article doesn't go into detail on how the incident escalated, but how about *you* propose a procedure for them to follow that allows them to safely handle both this scenario as well as the "real" scenario where one or more armed passenger are planning to hijack the plane. I mean, it's not like the crew can just calmly get on the intercom and announce to the whole plane, "Hey, we've got some pictures of guns getting sent around the plane; who can tell us what that's all about?" > And no I don’t blaim the teenager. Unless there's something significant that the story doesn't cover, the main fault here *does* lie with the teen. Charged with a crime or not, he should not be expecting to fly for a good long time. Nor should anybody who screws around like that on a plane. Yes, young and stupid go together, but that doesn't mean you're free from the consequences of your actions. f7cdb8cd626a6abe512027f0cb9faefe62638af434e839ead31a699ca9cee62e