Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR (qz.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @06:19AM from the keeping-an-eye-on-the-shady-folk dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Every year politicians and business men meet at the World Economic Forum in the small mountain town of Davos, Switzerland to discuss various topics and create business deals. This year Quartz, an online newspaper/magazine sent a journalist to the forum tasked with writing a unconventional story about the forum: he was asked to monitor the private helicopter traffic coming in and out of Davos from transponder broadcast of ADS-B data. Using an $20 RTL-SDR dongle, Raspberry Pi and ADS-B collinear antenna they monitored the flights over Davos. From the data they were able to determine the flight paths that many helicopters took, the types of helicopters used and the most popular flight times.

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Why should I give a flying fuck? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-27 06:43 · Score: 1, Insightful

Why should I give a flying fuck about helicopters over the World Economic Forum? The quality of stories on this site fucking sucks nowadays. Bring back Taco!
Re:Explain the fucking acronyms in the summary! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-27 06:44 · Score: 0, Insightful

If you don't understand the acronyms, you're not qualified to read the article.
Re:I'm not surprised at all by SuricouRaven · 2016-01-27 07:32 · Score: 4, Insightful

What's the point of being filthy rich if you still have to mix with the commoners?