Here's how Apple's AirDrop and a toy gun caused a 'threat on board' a United flight last week:
ast Thursday, a United Airlines flight was prepping to leave the gate at San Francisco International Airport when several passengers inexplicably received a photo of a gun via their smartphones.SF GateThat initiated a three-hour delay, while officials evacuated the plane, rescreened all the passengers and searched the aircraft.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this incident was how the teen shared the alarming photo with complete strangers. He pulled off his prank using Most adults who use AirDrop choose to share files with individuals on their contact lists, but there are some practical, legitimate reasons for mass-sharing files using AirDrop. For example, a conference speaker might use AirDrop to distribute a PDF to a large group of individuals who are not contacts. Or a business owner may use AirDrop to share a file to everyone in an employee meeting., often to prank unknowing individuals nearby.
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