The idea that this is somehow doxxing is beyond ridiculous. It's public data thaat anyone can read on a website (eg flightradar) or pick up themselves with a cheap receiver. That system is ADS-B. Knowing your plane (and not necessarily you) is at 37,000 feet above Iowa only represents a threat to someone with a serious SAM capability or interceptor jets. Or even that it's at LAX.
Think about this: we know where Air Force One is.
So why is this public? The design and history of ADS-B is an interesting topic that was talked about more during in its development and rollout. One of the design elements that's questionable is that there's really no verification on the broadcast data. You can broadcast what you want. There are demoes of people hooking up Flight Simulator and showing the ADS-B transmissions they could make that would mimic their location, altitude and heading. They didn't do broadcast it of course. It's a felony to do so.
All of this sprung from the desire to get rid of ground radar at airports. There are lots of reasons for this, some good, some questionable.
But it remains clear that this represents a plausible security threat.
So you can ask should ADS-B data be public? Well there's really no alternative. It's designed that way. The FAA has been working on privacy options for this. I'm not sure the current status.
Anyway, people rail on Elon in particular because he's so incredibly thin-skinned (eg banning people posting clips of him getting booed when onstage with Dave Chappelle) and he's a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist", which everyone knows is a complete lie. Elon banning ElonJet is yet more evidence of that lie. People take great pleasure in such people getting egg on their face.
To large extent, doxxing is providing public information in a venue it usually wouldn't be shown in, and where people with bad intentions who otherwise wouldn't think to look for that information will see it.
It's drawing attention to obscure public information, and most things that involve politeness do run on security by obscurity.
Just because public data is available doesn't mean it can't be weaponized against you. I'm sure there would be a huge outrage if someone started publicly posting ALPR data and you could track people by their license plate.
Think about this: we know where Air Force One is.
So why is this public? The design and history of ADS-B is an interesting topic that was talked about more during in its development and rollout. One of the design elements that's questionable is that there's really no verification on the broadcast data. You can broadcast what you want. There are demoes of people hooking up Flight Simulator and showing the ADS-B transmissions they could make that would mimic their location, altitude and heading. They didn't do broadcast it of course. It's a felony to do so.
All of this sprung from the desire to get rid of ground radar at airports. There are lots of reasons for this, some good, some questionable.
But it remains clear that this represents a plausible security threat.
So you can ask should ADS-B data be public? Well there's really no alternative. It's designed that way. The FAA has been working on privacy options for this. I'm not sure the current status.
Anyway, people rail on Elon in particular because he's so incredibly thin-skinned (eg banning people posting clips of him getting booed when onstage with Dave Chappelle) and he's a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist", which everyone knows is a complete lie. Elon banning ElonJet is yet more evidence of that lie. People take great pleasure in such people getting egg on their face.