Musk thinks it’s doxxing. But there are reasons why this information is largely public.
. Then Thursday night he went still further, suspending more than a half-dozen prominent journalists who had been covering the controversy.
In his defense, Musk argued that tweeting information about his flights was equivalent to “doxxing,” a practice in which online harassers publish a victim’s address, phone number, or other personal information in order to encourage other people to harass them.
It turns out there is actually a very good reason. “It’s a safety concern,” says Bob Joyce, director of aviation safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. “Certain parts of the country are saturated with traffic,” he says; flight tracking helps keeps planes from flying into one another.The need to keep aircraft separated has been the impetus behind aircraft surveillance for decades.
This information is instantly available not only to air traffic controllers but also to other pilots, who can see in real time all the other traffic around them. Because the information is unencrypted and freely available, anyone at all can pick it up and do whatever they want with it, and there are a number of websites that allow anyone to view air traffic around the world.Knowing where everyone is all the time is invaluable for accident investigation.
It’s a laborious process, and codes cannot be changed more than once every 60 days. This means they can be of limited utility, since astute observers might be able to use other clues to figure out an aircraft owner’s identify. Musk takes part in the PIA program, so some of his supporters have argued that Sweeney isn’t using publicly available information. But his plane’s well-known
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