Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet
gizmodo.com
Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.

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  • nasezero [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    58·
    5 months ago

    Assuming you can still track jets by their anonymous registration, I wonder how easy it would be to to deanonymize them by finding correlations between where each jet travels VS public appearances in the vacinity of the airports the anonymous registrations are landing at

  • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    5 months ago

    We’re probably less than ten years away from people modifying off the shelf drones to fly faster and carry homemade explosives in order to take down billionaires private jets. I wouldn’t be surprised if the precision of GPS devices available to the public is intentionally rolled back soon as well.

    • ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      I think civilian access to gps is set up in such a way as to protect against this, but I don’t know enough and I’m going off an old online thread from memory. So, I’m pretty much an aeronautics expert.

      • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        From my understanding, commercial GPS units have built-in latency issues in the US. This makes it impossible to reliably control position at high velocity. HOWEVER, it is legal to build your own GPS to bypass this. You’d have to be an electrical engineer to design it though

        • mrgreyeyesEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I think averaging out GPS, Glonass and Galileo will give you a reasonable precision.

    • mihor@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      You don’t really need explosives to take down the jet, all you need is a drone flying in front of a jet taking off or landing and colliding with it or even getting sucked into the engine. That would spell a really bad day for the rich removed. 😁

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Bro this is dark as hell.

      Like you really think people finna murder billionaires in the future? Like I support it in a way, but you think we’ll get there?

      How fast are planes on take off anyway. Fastest drone is 300mph. Some dude and his dad made one. You can see it YT.

      • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        I think some very high profile murders will be attempted soon, they’ll have to if they want to murder a billionaire instead of a trillionaire.

        It doesn’t really matter how fast the plane is if the drone is coming from the opposite direction and goes through the windshield and explodes in the cockpit.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    This is, surprisingly a big disappointment from Biden for me. I think one of the coolest things Biden almost did was “try ™*” to bully Sinema and Joe Manchin into complying with a spending bill (or something). When people were bullying them, he goes “that’s what security is for, Jack!” Now when it’s shitty celebrities suddenly their privacy is important? That sucks!

    I’m starting to think that this democracy isn’t divorced from the whims of capital

    *He didn’t try, he was relieved he had someone to blame

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Also, this is more evidence to me that TS is a CIA plant or in some way a puppet of the government. She needs her good public image and the state is down to keep it in tact. For what? For eating ze bugs or something, idk.