Not to mention the widespread availability of SDR chips in the RTL family which can hear this data transmitted if you're reasonably close to an airport.
So far as I'm aware, ADS-B wasn't designed to be private. In fact, something of the opposite -- ADS-B was meant (in part) to provide notice of your presence to other aircraft in the vicinity.
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This reminds me of the complete lack of security in ADS-B transmissions from aircraft.
See an interesting DefCon talk from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXv1j3GbgLk
Not to mention the widespread availability of SDR chips in the RTL family which can hear this data transmitted if you're reasonably close to an airport.
So far as I'm aware, ADS-B wasn't designed to be private. In fact, something of the opposite -- ADS-B was meant (in part) to provide notice of your presence to other aircraft in the vicinity.
I think he means lack of any authentication. Messages could be signed by the aircraft, by they aren't.
You can buy hackrf below $200 and transmit them yourself. If you feel like breaking the law that is.
In Germany you can get up to ten years for doing that.
I definitely do not advocate doing at. It's just that Mallory usually doesn't care about the law, so security should be based on something more.
Also relevant: war.