Interesting to see how many people slagging off Musk for threatening the MuskJet guy are now tacitly supportive of Taylor Swift threating the same guy for doing the exact same thing.
ADSB IS PUBLIC.
Musk was wrong.
Swift is wrong.
I'm not really a Musk fan, whereas I am a bit of a Swift fan. Nonetheless, I think she's wrong about this just as Musk was.
* unless I've missed some detail and the situations are different in some important way.
@bloor it is public for the main purpose that you know, planes don’t crash.
FAA has a private ICAO address program for exactly this use case and it’s on the aircraft owners if they don’t.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
@alexlomas exactly. And though I sometimes think "maybe it shouldn't have been regarded as public" also, lots of places to have legit uses for it which would be hampered by any attempt to technically or legally make it awkward.
@bloor @alexlomas
TS, apparently, operated her own F900 but disposed of it recently. The recent furore over the flights from Japan back to US & then out to Aus involved her use of Vistajet aircraft (rent-a-jet). Identifying which aircraft required a simple guessing game of Vistajet aircraft departing TS’ known location (eg perfomance venue) in a specific timeframe.
The FAA’s PIA scheme (& LADD) are limited to the US. PIA could be circumvented by coordinating Live-ATC with reception of transponder transmissions.
Nearly all civil aeronautical communications can be eavesdropped with an RTL-SDR, appropriate antenna, and software (possible exception being SBB AMS(R)S).
Not convinced ADS-B is the ‘problem’.
ATM & AOC comms aren’t intended to pander to the privacy whims of ‘celebrities’, they contribute to the safe operation of aircraft. As @bloor writes, there’s some depth to the safe operation of an aircraft, not least the place from which it operates.
Noting that US military (‘state’) aircraft have also begun to mess with ADS-B usage (Air Mobility Command types not frontline operational types).
