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emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoevery aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.
Isn’t this a pretty serious security concern? What if some armed group gets their hands on these real-time aircraft flight paths?
I mean everyone can already get their hands on it: www.adsbexchange.com
The exceptions to ADS-B requirements include military aircraft. Awhile back a friend and I were in the Nevada desert and some F-35s buzzed past us at only a few hundred feet. I was curious about the flight so I checked ADS-B exchange, and sure enough there was no trace of it. Friend got a cool picture though.
Generally speaking we rely on a culture of trustworthiness more than we rely on a culture of security in the US.
It’s why you can buy things with a credit card without showing ID. You can sign with a slightly squiggled line and it never gets looked at.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Ignoring the fact that everyone has their hands on these flight paths because it’s publicly available data, what if they did? Genuinely, what do you think is the worst that can happen?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
More of this.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You know militaries don’t need publicly available flight tracking to shoot down planes, right? Like, they have machines that tell them exactly where everything in the air near them is all the time.
Plus, airlines literally post departure and arrival times on the internet as part of their business model. Even if you didn’t know exactly where the plane was and when, you could make a pretty educated guess based on that information.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That wasn’t a military. It was a separatist group. My concern is that broadcasting your location significantly reduces the difficulty in shooting you down, to the point some armed group can do it.