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Lol how does it make sense to connect the public data plane tracker with someone following a car

by villgax 4y ago

trident5000 4y ago
You get into a car after a plane
- TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
  I am usually getting on a bus or train.
  - trident5000 4y ago
    Yeah, Elon and his family are going to take the Greyhound.
    - someweirdperson 4y ago
      If he wanted to, he would buy it first. The company, obviously, not a single bus.
      - jiveturkey 4y ago
        It seemed simpler
ops 4y ago
It's easy if the plane is flying into a small airport with very little traffic (like SMO)
- _djo_ 4y ago
  In that case you can just camp outside it and wait for his plane to land, which a determined stalker would do.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    That's pretty much what happened[0] (given the PIA situation with changing plane numbers mentioned elsewhere in the thread), with the only difference that the person camping out and watching out for the plane didn't do the stalking of the car ride afterwards themselves. They just reported the data on the flight landing, it got publicly updated on the tracker, and then another person (who actually approached the car later, according to Elon's claim) stalked them using the info posted on the tracker. [0]. Assuming the allegations about it happening are true.
    - _djo_ 4y ago
      Nope. As previously stated many times in this and the other discussions, the aircraft is not part of PIA and the accurate hex code is reported on the FAA site. ElonJet didn’t tweet anything on the day this incident occurred, so that part is false too.
      - filoleg 4y ago
        Sure, I am not claiming that this is what happened. My explanation of how it could easily work relies on the assumption that the aircraft was a part of PIA and that the events described actually happened. If his aircraft wasnt a part of PIA and the event never actually happened, it obviously all goes out of the window.
mlindner 4y ago
The link is weak but because you can track the plane you can wait at the private airport terminal and wait for the guy to walk out the door. There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals so it's easy to just wait for the person in question. Once they're out you can then follow and tail their car.
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals In Los Angeles there are hundreds of private flights per day, and wealthy people pay for hangar space. It may well be possible to stalk someone this way, but I don't think it's such a foregone conclusion. It's also conceivable that a very wealthy person with a flair for hype and dramatic gestures would stage an event as a demonstration or object lesson; we know of celebrities who have done just that is a misguided attempt to solicit public sympathy. I am not suggesting this has happened; it's just one of numerous possibilities, and I point it out to point out that it's no more irrational than other plausible allegations.
- salawat 4y ago
  And? Literally everyone else runs this same risk who uses an airline. Maybe if home boy doesn't want to get tracked, he should stop using a means of locomotion where every flight plan is a matter of public record. Zero sympathy here. I'm actually more upset that there appears to be a "hush hush, pay to anonymize" program, and that it isn't rolled out as a default. Billionaires do not deserve exclusions from the baseline risk profiles everyone else endures.

Lol how does it make sense to connect the public data plane tracker with someone following a car

trident5000 4y ago

You get into a car after a plane

TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
I am usually getting on a bus or train.
- trident5000 4y ago
  Yeah, Elon and his family are going to take the Greyhound.
  - someweirdperson 4y ago
    If he wanted to, he would buy it first. The company, obviously, not a single bus.
    - jiveturkey 4y ago
      It seemed simpler

ops 4y ago

It's easy if the plane is flying into a small airport with very little traffic (like SMO)

_djo_ 4y ago
In that case you can just camp outside it and wait for his plane to land, which a determined stalker would do.
- filoleg 4y ago
  That's pretty much what happened[0] (given the PIA situation with changing plane numbers mentioned elsewhere in the thread), with the only difference that the person camping out and watching out for the plane didn't do the stalking of the car ride afterwards themselves. They just reported the data on the flight landing, it got publicly updated on the tracker, and then another person (who actually approached the car later, according to Elon's claim) stalked them using the info posted on the tracker. [0]. Assuming the allegations about it happening are true.
  - _djo_ 4y ago
    Nope. As previously stated many times in this and the other discussions, the aircraft is not part of PIA and the accurate hex code is reported on the FAA site. ElonJet didn’t tweet anything on the day this incident occurred, so that part is false too.
    - filoleg 4y ago
      Sure, I am not claiming that this is what happened. My explanation of how it could easily work relies on the assumption that the aircraft was a part of PIA and that the events described actually happened. If his aircraft wasnt a part of PIA and the event never actually happened, it obviously all goes out of the window.

mlindner 4y ago

The link is weak but because you can track the plane you can wait at the private airport terminal and wait for the guy to walk out the door. There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals so it's easy to just wait for the person in question. Once they're out you can then follow and tail their car.

anigbrowl 4y ago
There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals In Los Angeles there are hundreds of private flights per day, and wealthy people pay for hangar space. It may well be possible to stalk someone this way, but I don't think it's such a foregone conclusion. It's also conceivable that a very wealthy person with a flair for hype and dramatic gestures would stage an event as a demonstration or object lesson; we know of celebrities who have done just that is a misguided attempt to solicit public sympathy. I am not suggesting this has happened; it's just one of numerous possibilities, and I point it out to point out that it's no more irrational than other plausible allegations.
salawat 4y ago
And? Literally everyone else runs this same risk who uses an airline. Maybe if home boy doesn't want to get tracked, he should stop using a means of locomotion where every flight plan is a matter of public record. Zero sympathy here. I'm actually more upset that there appears to be a "hush hush, pay to anonymize" program, and that it isn't rolled out as a default. Billionaires do not deserve exclusions from the baseline risk profiles everyone else endures.