At 15:30 14 March 2015, kirk.stant wrote:
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
track=
er=20
is going to expire in a few days, and they will now pass through Flarm
to=
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get the data decrypted.
Stealth mode was easy to accomplish, very strange, and a very sad=20
conclusion. But I agree that the privacy goes first, it wasnt that hard
t=
o=20
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
hack=
ed 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
mark=
et demand (tracking) by enhancing their system to provide features such
as
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privacy for those who were previously affected by the (possibly illegal)
ha=
cked OGN network.

And you think Flarm acted incorrectly? Really?

Interesting perspective.

Kirk
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What leads you to believe that Flarm's encryption was 'Hacked' and the
decryption algorithms not provided by FLARM (as Binary code)?

I also find the idea that update 6.0 was made just to disable OGN Tracking
strange, when the update was planned years ago before OGN existed.

But don’t you worry, there are only two OGN stations in US, of which only
one seems to be operational, so it is unlikely to affect you.