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ADS-B is an automatic broadcast of an airplane's position and velocity, intended for making management of the airspace easer, among other things. It is not enc
by navyrain 16y ago
ADS-B is an automatic broadcast of an airplane's position and velocity, intended for making management of the airspace easer, among other things. It is not encrypted, and you can set up the hardware to receive the signal with a modest amount of effort. There is apparently a website somewhere where these hobbyists are aggregating this data.
- lkjhjkedfgvb 16y agoThen this data must be encrypted. And since it would be an obvious security risk to allow bad guys (ie foreigners) to access this data then none US aircraft couldn't be allowed to fly in the same airspace as non-Us aircraft. So US aircraft couldn't be allowed to fly abroad and foreign aircraft couldn't be allowed in the US. Operation complete isolation (as the proposal is known) would greatly increase security.
- regularfry 16y agoWhat's the threat model here?
- candeira 16y agoExactly, what's the threat model? If I were a terrorist with a ground-to-air missile, would it matter to me whether I blew up a specific plane or just the first Jumbo-class plane of $country's airline to take off? Would it matter to society at large whether a plane had been randomly or specifically targeted?