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Comment by basilikum

1 day ago

To be honest calling the police and saying you have a bomb planted on flight XYZ and want 100000$ or you'll detonate it, is probably also enough.

But bombs apparently use bluetooth now, so he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...

  • In the most simplistic terms, yeah. That's true. But the constraints aren't really shaped like that. For instance:

    A completely-innocent Airtag speaks only bluetooth, and it can be activated from continents away -- as long as any Apple phone is nearby with a shred of Internet access.

    My similarly-innocent Samsung phone is programmable (using its built-in Routines function) to perform actions in response to becoming disconnected from any given Bluetooth device.

  • > he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...

    Reliably bomb detonation is on the roadmap for Bluetooth 8.