Twitter restored ElonJet account

Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by trident5000 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:11PM (#33993576)

You get into a car after a plane

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by TheLoafOfBread on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:15PM (#33993625)

I am usually getting on a bus or train.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by trident5000 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:17PM (#33993646)

Yeah, Elon and his family are going to take the Greyhound.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by someweirdperson on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:25PM (#33993740)

If he wanted to, he would buy it first. The company, obviously, not a single bus.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by jiveturkey on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:52PM (#33994001)

It seemed simpler

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by ops on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:20PM (#33995144)

It's easy if the plane is flying into a small airport with very little traffic (like SMO)

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by _djo_ on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:54PM (#34003931)

In that case you can just camp outside it and wait for his plane to land, which a determined stalker would do.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by filoleg on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:39PM (#34017582)

That's pretty much what happened[0] (given the PIA situation with changing plane numbers mentioned elsewhere in the thread), with the only difference that the person camping out and watching out for the plane didn't do the stalking of the car ride afterwards themselves. They just reported the data on the flight landing, it got publicly updated on the tracker, and then another person (who actually approached the car later, according to Elon's claim) stalked them using the info posted on the tracker.

[0]. Assuming the allegations about it happening are true.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by _djo_ on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:54PM (#34017742)

Nope. As previously stated many times in this and the other discussions, the aircraft is not part of PIA and the accurate hex code is reported on the FAA site.

ElonJet didn’t tweet anything on the day this incident occurred, so that part is false too.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by filoleg on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:56PM (#34017783)

Sure, I am not claiming that this is what happened. My explanation of how it could easily work relies on the assumption that the aircraft was a part of PIA and that the events described actually happened. If his aircraft wasnt a part of PIA and the event never actually happened, it obviously all goes out of the window.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by mlindner on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:30AM (#33995627)

The link is weak but because you can track the plane you can wait at the private airport terminal and wait for the guy to walk out the door. There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals so it's easy to just wait for the person in question. Once they're out you can then follow and tail their car.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by anigbrowl on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:25AM (#33995997)

There's very few people that go in and out of those terminals

In Los Angeles there are hundreds of private flights per day, and wealthy people pay for hangar space. It may well be possible to stalk someone this way, but I don't think it's such a foregone conclusion.

It's also conceivable that a very wealthy person with a flair for hype and dramatic gestures would stage an event as a demonstration or object lesson; we know of celebrities who have done just that is a misguided attempt to solicit public sympathy.

I am not suggesting this has happened; it's just one of numerous possibilities, and I point it out to point out that it's no more irrational than other plausible allegations.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by salawat on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:58PM (#34003985)

And? Literally everyone else runs this same risk who uses an airline. Maybe if home boy doesn't want to get tracked, he should stop using a means of locomotion where every flight plan is a matter of public record.

Zero sympathy here. I'm actually more upset that there appears to be a "hush hush, pay to anonymize" program, and that it isn't rolled out as a default. Billionaires do not deserve exclusions from the baseline risk profiles everyone else endures.

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