19-year-old who built a system that can track private jets is offered a moratorium by Elon Musk


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Elon Musk's Jet ( @ElonJet ) is a BOT account that tweets takeoff and landing information of private jets owned by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. It is reported that Musk CEO himself sent a direct message to this Elon Musk's Jet to stop tweeting, and showed his willingness to pay a moratorium.

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Elon Musk's Jet, run by 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, tweeted the takeoff and landing information for Musk's jets as follows:



By analyzing the information recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), it is said that the takeoff and landing information of private jets is grasped. However, since personally identifiable information has been deleted from the FAA information, the altitude and data of the airplane are received from the ADS-B transponder mounted on the aircraft, and the takeoff and landing time is determined from the elapsed time. It is said that the destination is determined by collating the latitude and longitude with the database of the airport. It seems that it takes a high degree of expertise to understand how to analyze such data, but Mr. Sweeney was an airplane enthusiast from an early age because his father worked in the aviation industry, so when he was a child It seems that he was playing to identify the airplane by analyzing it himself from the information of the online aviation tracking application.

Like Elon Musk's Jet, Sweeney runs 15 private jet tracking accounts such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. However, among them, Elon Musk's Jet has about 85,000 followers and is said to be the most popular.

It seems that a direct mail was sent from CEO Mask under Mr. Sweeney. Musk CEO is afraid of Elon Musk's Jet's popularity and commented, 'It's not a waste to be stalked and shot by a crazy guy.' In addition, I asked Mr. Sweeney how much he earned with this Elon Musk's Jet.


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When Mr. Sweeney replied, 'I don't have $ 20 a month,' Mask CEO said, 'Would you like to delete your account for $ 5,000?' But Sweeney added, 'Why don't you get $ 50,000? That would be a big boost to your college life and maybe you could buy a Tesla Model 3'. I did.

Musk said, 'Let's think about it,' and the conversation ended there, but Elon Musk's Jet was still in operation at the time of writing the article because Musk did not pay a stop fee.

Sweeney said that accounts such as Elon Musk's Jet have increased the number of followers on social media , learned programming, and eventually became able to work part-time as an application developer for UberJets, a private jet delivery service. That. Therefore, Elon Musk's Jet can be shut down, Sweeney said.

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