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Planning to fly? Pour out your shampoo, toss your scissors, rename terrorist Wi-fi!

Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

skelband beat me to it:

"Well its official. The terrorists have won. They have us quaking in our boots, sensitive to the slightest little thing."

The point of terrorism in general is to terrorize; the stated point of (some of the) middle-east-based terror groups is to cause more and more disruption in the west to normal functions such as air travel, not by actually disrupting them themselves, but by vaguely implying they PLAN to disrupt them and have the response (from TSA et. al) disrupt them much more. (Although some *cough* ISIS *cough* seem to simply plan on murder and mayham.)

A) Having this much of an overreaction to a silly network name demonstrates this clearly. B) Furthermore, why didn't someone just spend a few minutes to physically locate the source of the network (probably some phone or mifi) rather than disrupting the whole airport? Tracking down a wifi network's via signal strength is not hard at all.

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