Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon?

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ADS-B is public broadcast though… if you’re in range of the plane, you can pick up its air traffic control data (elevation, speed, heading, registration, etc)… services like flight radar 24 don’t work on FAA data: they are a huge network of regular people across the globe with ADS-B receivers contributing everything they see

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think the above user was referring to this: faa.gov/…/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-priva…

    They are no longer making the information public which aircraft belongs to whom, so in the future you might no longer know that any given aircraft belongs to Elon Musk or any other celebrity. You can still track it, but you won’t know what aircraft to track.

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    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure… Until he takes his private jet out of the United States of America and has to register the information with a non USA equivalent of the FAA

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then

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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just sit next to the airport with a telescope on days you know he will be there. He would have to change IDs every flight to avoid this.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, exactly this ^

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The rules will really change when the first billionaire on a private jet gets taken out by a DIY suicide drone.

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• blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought they just slightly obfuscated it, but bc the importance of tail numbers for safety, they can’t do so completely. I’d love a complete explanation from someone knowledgeable.

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  • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just months until they apply the Steve Jobs rule to tail numbers.

    Lease a new private jet every 3 months and you don’t need plates, or tail numbers.

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