Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered a 19-year-old boy $5,000, equivalent to around 1.6 million forints, to delete his Twitter account that tracks the Musk family's flights.
Elon Musk the richest man in the world, the Bloomberg indexe according to currently has a net worth of $220 billion, more than $50 billion more than the next richest man after him, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Unsurprisingly, like a very significant proportion of the ultra-rich, Musk also flies in a private jet, some of whose flight data can be accessed via public websites.
According to Elon Musk’s Jet This is how Jack Sweeney, the owner of the Twitter account, got access to Musk's private jet flight itineraries, which, needless to say, poses a security risk to the billionaire businessman and his family, given that the 19-year-old shares the data with his followers on the dedicated page.
The Protocol report from according to the businessman sent Sweeney a message last autumn asking if he could take the data down because it posed a security risk. Sweeney, of course, responded to the message immediately. "Yes, I can do that, but it will cost a Model 3” – írta a srác, gyorsan hozzátéve, hogy csak viccelt.
The story is currently that Elon Musk offered $5,000 for the Twitter account, but Sweeney thought that they could raise that to $50,000. "It would be a great help at university, and I might even have enough money left over to buy a car, like a Model 3.” – írta. A milliárdos erre úgy reagált, hogy még átgondolja a dolgot.
After Sweeney explained to Musk where he had found the flight data, the entrepreneur was amazed at how quick and easy it was to get this kind of information. "Air traffic control is a primitive" - he commented on the incident.
