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orus t1_iyzr794 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights by linguist96

No one really checks if someone’s phone is in airplane mode. If it were that critical a vulnerability, they would be more serious about it or there would have been hacks already.

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cranial_prolapse420 t1_iyzxcnm wrote

...or planes juat falling out of the aky, because someone forgot.

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CPargermer t1_iyzy7n4 wrote

This is the thing for me. People that don't speak the language, people that forget, people that don't know how, people that resist authority... There are so many chances for them to not put their phone into airplane mode, yet you never hear of any problems.

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Kriztauf t1_iz00p0u wrote

I've got a mental image of a plane starting to fall out of sky and the pilots screaming "SOMEONE FORGOT TO TURN ON AIRPLANE MODE"

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BigDisk t1_iz0a8eu wrote

It would also be more effective to just come out and say something to the lines of "Please put your phones in airplane mode, otherwise the constant searching for a signal is gonna kill your battery."

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