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> The information is publicly available because it is mandated to be as a condition of flying. No, it's not. Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft
by wizeman 4y ago
> The information is publicly available because it is mandated to be as a condition of flying.
No, it's not.
Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft identifier unconnected to its owner every month, because it is subscribed to this program: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
This government program was specifically designed to hide the link between an aircraft identifier and the owner of the aircraft.
If the link between Elon Musk and the aircraft identifier he flies with was meant to be publicly available, why does this program exist in the first place?
- nickthegreek 4y agoIf it’s not meant to be public. Why do his planes broadcast the information through the airwaves to anyone who wants to listen?
- _Algernon_ 4y ago>Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft identifier unconnected to its owner every month, because it is subscribed to this program: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy Wrong. None of Musk's planes are part of the PIA program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34037524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34037524 as evident by any ads-b map out there.
- sbarre 4y agoIs it possible that this program is ineffectual, because of publicly-available information from other sources that can be cross-referenced? If I were to put together a badly implemented privacy program that people can trivially circumvent without breaking the law, who should be blamed when people do exactly that? Me, or the people doing the trivial yet legal circumvention?