News and notes from around the interweb:
- Who do loyalty program members believe offer the best airline, hotel, and credit card programs?
- Woman arrested for stealing from crew member and other passenger inflight. She hid her bounty in her underwear. Would you really want you bank card back?
- TSA agent faked cancer for five years to get paid time off. He made up his own doctor’s notes, including after the doctor whose name he was using died. And he conned fellow employees into transferring their sick leave to him. Ultimately he took 280 paid days off.
- Some folks at the University of Miami this the time is ripe for a class action suit against frequent flyer programs. The Supreme Court seems likely to disagree.
- FAA orders new Boeing 787 electrical fix. There’s a software bug, apparently, that has never actually caused a problem. But if an operator ran the generator control units for eight months continuously, the plane could lose power. Airlines don’t actually run a plane’s generators continuously for eight months, but Boeing is working on a fix. I think this is a great example of the lengths modern aviation goes to ensure safety.
- You can still fly a Ford Trimotor
iPads can be locked down with passcode.
They are useless unless they’re unlocked.
Also Find my iPhone will geolocate the device.
A couple of years ago, a TSA worker was confronted at his home when the stolen iPad was tracked there by Find my iPhone.
He denied at the door that he had it so the owner had it play a tone, one of the features of Find my iPhone. The sound implicated the suspect, who lost his job and was prosecuted.
Lock down your devices and turn on tracking.
You can lock your iPads and iPhones BUT if you can also turn off the device if it is locked… I wish that feature could be disable so you could track your device.