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Old March 14th 15, 03:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
kirk.stant
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Default PowerFlarm Update?

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:18:50 AM UTC-5, pcool wrote:
Now I understand, thank you very much.
Well it seems OGN is going to pay back the privacy issue. Their OGN tracker
is going to expire in a few days, and they will now pass through Flarm to
get the data decrypted.
Stealth mode was easy to accomplish, very strange, and a very sad
conclusion. But I agree that the privacy goes first, it wasnt that hard to
deal with, at all.


I really don't understand your point. Flarm develops a proprietary product that gets adopted by a large part of the gliding community, then gets hacked and used by a bunch of techno glider geeks. Flarm responds by protecting their (as in, THEY DEVELOPED AND OWN IT) technology and responds to a market demand (tracking) by enhancing their system to provide features such as privacy for those who were previously affected by the (possibly illegal) hacked OGN network.

And you think Flarm acted incorrectly? Really?

Interesting perspective.

Kirk
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