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And the response is:

_This aircraft (xxx) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator._

Which proves my point.

A motivated stalker will dig in and research but that’s inevitable, but the other 99.999% losers will self-limit to whatever is available for the minimum effort.

This translates to harmless yelling at clouds, unless some cheeky troll does the homework for them.



You missed this part.

Build a receiver with a Raspberry Pi

For under USD$100 / EUR€80, build a Raspberry Pi with a USB ADS-B receiver that can run dump1090 and PiAware. View data locally or via FlightAware Users that share data with FlightAware automatically qualify for a free upgrade to an Enterprise Account.


I don't quite understand if you're deliberately ignoring my point of if you're that out of touch.

Perhaps you've forever lived in an academic/industrial bubble, but a significant part of the population and definitely the vast majoirity of those that would engage in taking a virtual confrontation to IRL, are borderline illiterate, have significant difficulty parsing simple manuals. You're describing setting up a computer with Linux, configuring an SDR and configuring some software to parse the data stream.

To most people, that's lunar...


Next step is him taking over FlightAware.




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