[wizeman]

> The information is publicly available because it is mandated to be as a condition of flying.

No, it's not.

Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft identifier unconnected to its owner every month, because it is subscribed to this program: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

This government program was specifically designed to hide the link between an aircraft identifier and the owner of the aircraft.

If the link between Elon Musk and the aircraft identifier he flies with was meant to be publicly available, why does this program exist in the first place?

[sbarre]

Is it possible that this program is ineffectual, because of publicly-available information from other sources that can be cross-referenced?

If I were to put together a badly implemented privacy program that people can trivially circumvent without breaking the law, who should be blamed when people do exactly that?

Me, or the people doing the trivial yet legal circumvention?

[_Algernon_]

>Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft identifier unconnected to its owner every month, because it is subscribed to this program: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

Wrong. None of Musk's planes are part of the PIA program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34037524 as evident by any ads-b map out there.

[nickthegreek]

If it’s not meant to be public. Why do his planes broadcast the information through the airwaves to anyone who wants to listen?