Note that the FAA offers aircraft operators ways to make ADS-B information more private by vending a temporary ID for domestic flights.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

Note also that FlightRadar24 and other ADS-B vendors are required by law to comply with FAA LADD, so airplane operators can request (demand, really) their information be scrubbed.

https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations/security/privacy/limiti...

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd

> Note also that FlightRadar24 and other ADS-B vendors are required by law to comply with FAA LADD

Flight tracking vendors that use FAA data are required by law to comply with LADD. Ones that run their own ADS-B networks and use no FAA data (e.g. ADSBexchange.com) are not.

Do you own a home? Would you like a social network that allows someone that doesn't like you to post your home address to millions of followers? Are sites like acris a security concern?

>Do you own a home?

Yes

>Would you like a social network that allows someone that doesn't like you to post your home address to millions of followers?

That's public data in my county whether I like it or not. Presumably that's where most of my junk mail comes from. It's annoying but I don't think it should be banned necessarily

That's against HN policy.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

I thought so. A reasonable policy for a social network which was my point. Thanks dang

You mean like this service?

https://landtransparency.ca/

You don't get my point. Re-read my comment. Yes, sites exist that aggregate some public data. They are not necessarily a security risk. But blasting out data that may be public somewhere to millions of people who hate you is a security risk.

Another example of something like this is the mugshot websites that post your mugshot (also public!) and spam in out in hopes of getting you to bribe them to take it down.

Why is it a security risk?

Don't the people who actually want to harm musk, and have the means to make it happen, have anyway the means to get the information they need to find him? If it's mildly obnoxious like having to look up land records, they'll just do that.

I genuinely don't see how posting the location of his plane is a "security risk." I don't understand why he gets this added layer of consideration as a person in the airport. They got security at the airport. He lands behind it, same as anyone. He comes through it and his security is in his hands and the hands of the local cops, same as anyone. What's the deal here?

It’s a private jet, so he actually doesn’t have to deal with security at all and in most cases he won’t be close to the main terminal.

I think, to be completely fair, that the perceived security issue is more that we have a loose idea of what city he might be in. This feels more like a privacy issue than a serious security issue.

> Would you like a social network that allows someone that doesn't like you to post your home address to millions of followers?

I take it you are too young to remember phone books?

I think by virtue of of being a public figure, Elon can't have the same expectations of privacy as regular people enjoy by way of relative anonymity. No one really balks at the Pelosi's home being easily obtainable information.

> Do you own a home?

No.