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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by dgacmu on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:15PM (#34521075)
There's a protocol for multilateration of the detected jets using all of the receivers that are in range of its signal. Whil I'm sure there are ways you could attack it, it's pretty robust to the more obvious things.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by wkat4242 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:24PM (#34525008)
The mlat is more for receiving aircraft that use traditional transponders which don't include gps coordinates but just a squawk code and altitude. Hence it needs multiple receivers to triangulate their location. I don't think it uses this for real adsb feeds.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by vlovich123 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:51PM (#34525276)
Would switching to a federated / distributed protocol fix things? Or is there some additional critical role that ADS-B was providing?
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