Taylor Swift's biggest problem getting to the 2024 Super Bowl

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.today.com/popculture/taylor-swift-jet-cease-desist-rcna137575

Taylor Swift's legal team wants a college student tracking her private jet to stop because they say she is living "in a constant state of fear for her personal safety" as a result.

University of Central Florida student Jack Sweeney, who says he uses publicly available information to track Swift and other celebrities' private jets and shares their locations on social media, told NBC News that the pop star's attorneys sent him a cease and desist letter.

According to the letter, first reported by The Washington Post, Swift's legal team says the singer will “have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies” if he did not stop his “stalking and harassing behavior.”

[jon-nyc]

Streisand effect, here we come.

[taiwan_girl]

Since the information is already public, I am not sure how they could require him to stop.

[Axtremus]

To solve this more generally, the whole system probably needs to change to allow each aircraft to (1) use frequently changing publicly visible identifier to identify itself, and (2) have a way to authenticate itself to the authorities (like the flight control towers) in a manner that does not expose its true identity on the open airwaves.

This may be similar to how computers/smartphones/tablets preserve privacy. Take Wi-Fi, for example. Each piece of Wi-Fi capable equipment has a fixed, permanently-assigned (burnt into the hardware) identifier that can uniquely the equipment. And Wi-Fi used to just use these identifiers on the open airwaves to communicate -- until people realize that carrying around and broadcasting these permanent identifiers around with you all the time is a privacy risk. Now newer W-Fi equipment uses randomly generated identifiers on the open airwaves, and have other ways of authenticating the equipment or the user in encrypted channel.

This sort of transition might take a ridiculously long time, though. People change their Wi-Fi capable gadgets every few years, but they keep old aircrafts operational for decades. :man-shrugging:

[taiwan_girl]

A sign of the economy. Blame it on President Biden. LOL

Taylor Swift is reported to have downsized to just one private jet after selling off her second one behind the scenes.

According to the Federal Aviation Authority's website, the 34-year-old hitmaker sold her Dassault Falcon 900 on January 30. The jet was registered to SATA LLC which shares an address with Taylor Swift Productions in Nashville, and had been in her possession since 2009.

It is now registered to a business in Missouri. The jet has a list price of $44million (£38m) when new. Up until now, Taylor owned both the Dassault 900 and a Dassault 7X which is still registered to Island Jet Inc - another holding company that shares its address with Taylor Swift Productions.

The Dassault 900 was the smaller of the two jets, carrying up to 12 passengers, while the Dassault 7X can hold up to 16 passengers and is designed with longer flights in mind.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/taylor-swift-downsizes-one-private-32065094

[Copper]

A lot of fancy jets are starting to show up in Las Vegas.

Can you spot the celebs?

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

[George K]

Our nation breathes a collective sigh of relief.

[kluurs]

Was there ever a doubt?

[Copper]

Let’s all say a little prayer of thanksgiving.

[Jolly]

When I was a young man, I had to spend good money and much of my weekend chasing that stuff.

Kelce is getting it delivered. By air.

[LuFins Dad]

My guess is they substituted Taylor's jet engines with Al Davis's casket, since he must be spinning so much in that grave that he could have powered 100 Transcontinental flights...

For those that don't know, Al Davis (former owner of the Raiders, whose Stadium is hosting the game) HATED the Chiefs.