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On a practical note if privacy and security is so important to Swift she could easily use a fractional program to rotate tail and serial numbers. Not sure why
by sklargh 3y ago
On a practical note if privacy and security is so important to Swift she could easily use a fractional program to rotate tail and serial numbers.
Not sure why I find this so grating but the idea that an aircraft using the public commons, funded by taxpayers, as an anonymous medium that conceals their immense wealth sort of strikes me as the equivalent of someone saying “my Benz doesn’t need license plates because I’m really really rich.”
- bombcar 3y ago> “my Benz doesn’t need license plates because I’m really really rich.” Reminds me of Job's trick around that - https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-license-plates/story?id=14834608 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-l... (and probably what you're referring to). The rich will always have ways of throwing money at annoyances that us poors do not have; and we will always laugh at them for it.
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- adolph 3y agoAnother perk: https://www.folklore.org/Handicapped.html https://www.folklore.org/Handicapped.html A few hours later, I found out that Apple's other cofounder, Steve Wozniak, who was a prolific prankster, called up the Cupertino police and reported that a silver Mercedes was illegally parked in a handicapped space and told them the person reporting it was Andy Hertzfeld, giving them my phone number at work.
- beembeem 3y agoIsn't it now two weeks not six months?
- CptnFluffyTail 3y agoThe Privacy ICAO Address Program. You get a temporary ICAO addresses to broadcast which are not associated with the Civil Aircraft Registry and a third-party callsign. Only works in US airspace is my understanding though. The Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD) program from the FAA only filters what gets shown in data feeds from the FAA. Something like ADS-B which gets the actual live data from the aircraft is unfiltered. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
- satiated_grue 3y agoAirplanes have the equivalent of a license plate painted on the side. What's different is the broadcast in-the-clear of your information of where you are at all times; not many cars have that feature. For airplanes, this is the equivalent of broadcasting "Hey, so-and-so is away from home in his airplane; and here's their home address, you are probably safe to go to their house and burgle it." Unless the aircraft owner has a Delaware corporation for it, of course.
- mrgoldenbrown 3y agoI'm guessing Taylor's home(s) have someone keeping an eye on them even when she's away, so that doesn't seem relevant. It would also apply to anyone with a private jet like hers.
- satiated_grue 3y agoBut this is true for lots of planes, not just private jets. Like, the local baker in Chicago who flies up to Racine in the morning to pick up kringles for an event he's catering that afternoon. "Regular" folks in their "regular" vehicles, as opposed to chauffeur-driven luxury vehicles owned or used by the wealthy.
- tzs 3y ago> Not sure why I find this so grating but the idea that an aircraft using the public commons, funded by taxpayers, as an anonymous medium that conceals their immense wealth How would not being tracked in near real-time conceal their wealth?