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The ability to track the private jets of the 1% is one of the weirder things I would not have considered this 21st Century would provide.

It feels a bit like a check/balance on the uber-wealthy but I'm not sure exactly how. I have to imagine though that the privileged that own these jets are not pleased; and I am coming to find that the things that make the 1% uncomfortable give me some small comfort. Maybe it shows that you can't buy your way out of all accountability?

You can infer a lot from info about where people are. It’s the same reason every mobile app wants your location.

Yes, but the same people that own these planes have been telling me since the beginning that I don't need to worry unless I'm hiding something.

Which has always been transparent bullshit.

Maybe we can add a blue check for private jets that don't want to display their registration on the plane ;)

Maybe things other than their flights could be tracked in an organized manner, and over time a higher resolution picture of what they are getting up to on the planet would emerge and motivate people to do something to improve upon the situation.

Can’t you trivially turn off a transponder?

Technically yes, legally no, with a few exceptions for military and special operations. Most airspaces are TMZ (transponder mandatory zone).

I’m guessing it’s a great way to get fined or even banned from landing at the airports worth landing at.

Wouldn't that be very illegal and noticed by every airport you ever land in?

Inside the continental US, if you fly a small not-turbine-engine-powered airplane yourself and only go to rural airports with no tower, it is actually legal to have no transponder (see below, 91.215(b), 91.225(b)).

But, if the transponder is installed, you are legally required to turn it on at all times no matter where you are (see 91.215(b)(3), "all controlled airspace" means everything above 700-1200ft AGL (depending on exactly where)).

So for this to be legal, you can't just turn if off: you have to actually remove it from the airplane. Whether that is legal additionally depends on the airplane.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.215 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.225

Yes. But that will trivially attract the attention of the FAA and, most likely, civil air defense.

Sure, but you still have to file a flight plan before you can get on a runway. Flight plans are quite detailed. I suppose you could file a fake flight plan though.

Small aircraft flying visual rules (VFR) in lightly used airspaces like class A don't need to file plans. Look around any small airport and you'll see Cessnas doing training loops all day long. No flight plans. But their ADS-B transponders are always on.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

You can't turn off an ultra-hi-res NRO satellite which is viewing/recording this plane's flight in real time.

It serves the opposite effect to me. We've always known they can get away with it, and this just makes it more brazen.

A very Reacher Gilt (https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Reacher_Gilt) move.

Or perhaps Cosmo Lavish is more appropriate here. Delusions of grandeur included. ( https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Cosmo_Lavish )

Flight trackers used to be a favorite way for fans and reporters to get evidence that their coach was looking to take a job at another school.

I will try to explain a little bit about this flight now because I read this hours ago, and im from Argentina.

The airship is a Gulfstream G450, licence plate LV-KEB.

This jet is own by Emes Air, a company from Emes Group. This company is own by Marcelo Midlin, that also has Pampa Energía, another big company.

The last November 3th, Joe Lewis used this jet to move from Patagonia (where he owns a big chuck of land) to Bahamas (where he declared residence). He has 2% of Pampa Energia.

Now, the flight came back, and maybe with the same guy or without anyone.

Or maybe with SBF on board, maybe because this weekend (nov 10-13) we are hosting the LaBitConf, a cryptovaporsomething conference where you can find people like Buterin, Elizabeth Stark, Michael Saylor, and devs and CEO's from Cambridge Analityca, Globant, etc.

Maybe this guy came to talk with his friends(?

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yt3uie/_/iw...

Top comment has this tweet claiming SBF is in mexico city right now: https://twitter.com/rivernba/status/1591408888137809921?s=61...

I'm pretty sure if I were an international fugitive with a gigantic afro that's recognizable a mile away, the first thing I would do is shave it off.

He's likely 'task saturated'.

https://nxlperformance.com/resource/wearing-too-many-hats-ca...

TLDR: "Sebastian Junger, in his book The Perfect Storm, gave the ultimate example of the hazard of task saturation. He wrote of a rescue helicopter pilot faced with a terrible storm. The pilot ran down his punch list to save his crew. The only thing he didn’t have time for? Unbuckling his seatbelt before ditching the helicopter. "

If you've not read the book, do that right now, it's amazing. The book's description of task saturation and how investigators determined every move of pilot David Ruvola's crash, nearly down to the second, well, it's riveting journalism. How Junger expertly confuses the reader just like Ruvola was confused is a masterclass in story telling.

SBF can do nothing but screw up now, there's just not enough time for his stressed out brain to compute what it needs to. I just hope he doesn't do something truly stupid and make matters much worse. It's just money in the end, it's not worth his life.

so like the billionaire version of the white Ford Bronco

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1591457012613001216?s=2...

>Imagine being an international criminal fugitive and most wanted person on the globe, in whatever airport or bolthole you're fleeing through or hiding in, and pausing to unfollow people you don't like on Twitter.

On a phone you’re logged into, on some local internet.

what if you get caught and sent to prison and can't unfollow them for the next ten years, that would be embarrassing! make you seem like you can't stand up for yourself!

Unfortunately it turns out the plane isn’t actually a real plane but is in fact an accounting of wasted computer cycles. He’s actually sitting in his moms basement surrounding himself with his wasted computer cycle wealth.

So the 1% need to buy several planes and fly them all out and around. Only one will actually have the "VIP" and the others are just decoys to throw everyone off...

Does Argentina have an extradition treaty with the US? What realistic can the US do to get him?

We can see in real-time how the 'hacker' moves the stolen money around, we get to read SBFs private conversations with Elon Musk, and we can track his private plane.

For all the shit-show that is going on, this level of transparency is a great dividend the internet provides us. It's harder than ever before for the powerful class to act in the dark. It's not a lot, but it is something.

On the flip side, it’s much easier to propagandize the masses now

Smart man, when you fleece an entire country, you can't really "get out of town", but you can definitely go to Argentina. Best of luck you con man, may your ability to steal millions and get away serve as a shining beacon to every wannabe business/tech bro in our community

SBF, the new John McAfee.

The universe requires at least one.

Why Argentina though?

They don’t deport (think Nazies and other scum that run away there)

Here is an example of Argentina extraditing someone to the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/03/argentina-agre...

He was charged in 2003 and extridited in 2015. Twelve years of evading justice is a pretty long time for someone wanted for murder.

He didn't even have a lot of money either.

There seems to be an extradition treaty US-Argentina though https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/105th-congress/18

Edit: but none Bahamas-Argentina: https://mofa.gov.bs/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BILATERAL-TRE...

If this really is him, the conspiracy buff would say it's an intermediate stop on the way to a place without an extradition treaty with the USA.

If you have money, Argentina will do anything for you. Gotta have money though. They're not gonna help you out just for the lolz, like Russia.

He doesn’t really understand the law very well.

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