Update: I was missing a major piece of the story. What was posted was not simply public flight info. From what I gather, Elon pays for a service to anonymize his travel so he, personally, doesn’t have his location always available to any nutcase. (Remember, he’s a private citizen, not a government employee).
What happened was someone reverse engineered the method used, and broadcasted for everyone his active flight path.
This is equivalent to someone accessing a cab dispatch center, finding out the cab number that Elon is in, and then broadcasting it to the world in real time.
Knowing these details, I would gladly support a permanent ban for these accounts.
Update: I was missing a major piece of the story. What was posted was not simply public flight info. From what I gather, Elon pays for a service to anonymize his travel so he, personally, doesn’t have his location always available to any nutcase. (Remember, he’s a private citizen, not a government employee).
What happened was someone reverse engineered the method used, and broadcasted for everyone his active flight path.
This is equivalent to someone accessing a cab dispatch center, finding out the cab number that Elon is in, and then broadcasting it to the world in real time.
Knowing these details, I would gladly support a permanent ban for these accounts.