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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by kjksf on Thursday April 21, 2022 @03:37PM (#31114224)
Publishing his location in real time affects his safety in a country where any whacko with a prior criminal history can get a gun. There certainly are plenty of people with serious grudge against Musk.

The data isn't "completely public". It takes non-trivial skill and effort to access this data.

I sure don't know how to do it.

It significantly rises the bar from "a whacko" to "a whacko with technical skills to access FAA monitoring system"

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Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy by SXX on Thursday April 21, 2022 @03:57PM (#31114473)
ADS-B is literally public data. There are several public exchanges that provide feeds without filtering and any person with one hour of time can access this data in real-time.

When some billionare buy private jet he is aware about fact that his jet can be easily tracked. If person decide to be a public figure he have to deal with fact that he'll be tracked around.

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