Smart Phone App or Terrorist Dream?

[East New York 4,103]

I'm kind of on the fence with this one, as the information is redily available online anyway.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Z66hDpSX8

[SoSpectacular 771]

Flight trackers already exist, this is just for the aviation fans who snap photos of aircraft and need info... I say its harmless

[East New York 4,103]

Flight trackers already exist, this is just for the aviation fans who snap photos of aircraft and need info... I say its harmless

 

I agree 100% that the app is ok at this stage, but It's something unsettling about it, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

[SevenEleven 2,986]

I rather track planes via a website rather than a straight up take a picture method.

[metsfan 2]

Aircraft follow fairly set routes using a waypoint system decades old, not hard to "track" them. Also they may look not too far away, but usually they are thousands of feet up if you can make out a livery. The ones above that, the lil dots with contrails behind them, are 5-7 miles up, traveling at around mach 0.85 or ~560 mph. If you're pointing anything at the sky that would harm these aircraft, i'm pretty sure many people would notice (even a stinger missile would run out of fuel).

 

No risk.

 

- A

[Nova RTS 9147 79]

If the info/technology is already available, then I seriously doubt a smart phone app will change anything.