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If Musk actually regarded flight tracking as a security risk, he would have signed up for the LADD program and restricted this info to FAA Source or added his aircraft to the Subscriber Level blocklist. He also could have requested a Privacy ICAO Address.

Any of these things would have put an actual stop to @elonjet, and the PIA solution would have prevented harassers from simply picking up with FlightRadar or any other tracking service.

The fact that he didn't do anything to increase his own security except for banning one of his company's users tells me this is not about personal security, but about exerting control over his company. That's his prerogative, but it's bizarre that he chooses to put up a facade instead of just adding "don't be an asshole to Elon" to the terms of service, which appears to be the actual endgame here.

>>stonog+(OP)
As I understand it, he is part of that program but the person tracking him uses alternate methods to get it.

>>influx+y
The alternative method is just people ad-hoc tracking the aircraft with their own ADS-B receivers. LADD doesnt allow aircraft to stop broadcasting. Only that data vendors like FlightRadar must respect the privacy requests. But antenna owners can choose to share their data with vendors that dont respect the LADD program in which case there is 0 recourse.

You can buy the antennas for like $100 and share the data in real time with whoever you want.

>>bburri+c5
Another speculation:

https://twitter.com/scottwww/status/1490553502640140288?s=46...

>>influx+y
Given that you can view the accurate ICAO hex address for his aircraft on registry.faa.gov, it's clear that he's not part of the PIA programme. ElonJet didn't do anything other than automate an API feed from ADSB Exchange, which uses the hex from the FAA.

>>stonog+(OP)
> instead of just adding "don't be an asshole to Elon" to the terms of service, which appears to be the actual endgame here

This is amusing because the ElonJet guy was actually a fanboy (originally, probably not anymore as he's being sued by Elon).