PowerFlarm Update?

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 12:30:05 PM UTC-5, Benedict Smith wrote:

Good luck with that, most OGN tracking stations will probably go off air
until
the OGN tracker is released rather than support FLARM out of their own
pocket!!!

So gliders would need ANOTHER device (the OGN tracker) to be shown on the OGN realtime map? Is that realistic?

Privacy was a non issue, if you put your details on the (previously) open
and
public flarmnet database then you presumably had no worries about your
public data being public!
If you did not put your data on the database then your glider was assigned
a
random and temporary ID so there was no issue with privacy as you could
only be identified if someone watched you take off and manually noted what

random ID you had been assigned for that day! If someone was going to that

length then OGN tracking would be the least of your worries.

Apparently it's an issue in Germany? From my US perspective, I don't really see the problem (since all transponders are tracked and visible online).


There was NO hacking involved, all the data was transmitted in clear text the anti collision protocol is the only "proprietary " part and OGN were
not interested in that) the airband is a public and unlicensed one so there was no wrongdoing.

Not according to Aldo Cernezzi in his Gliding International article. Perhaps you should submit a rebuttal.

There has been no similar criticism of the other tracking network (it's
name
escapes me for the moment) that uses FLARM recievers to feed a central
server, this won't be affected by the update and can access all the data
with
ease!

Are you referring to the Flarm-Radar Project?

The trouble started when FlarmNet changed the terms of their open database
and started to slander OGN with the barely hidden support of their
financial
backers (FLARM)
There were a lot of lies put about to try and discredit the OGN network.

Hmm, It would be interesting to hear FLARM's side of this story!

And you think Flarm acted incorrectly? Really?

YES

Why?

Kirk