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A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Elon Musk tried to pay him to stop.

Posted on February 1, 2022 by pogowasright.org

Remember how we all muttered years ago that eventually, people would have to pay for privacy? Well, a teenager’s ability to track Elon Musk’s flights and to post them on Twitter has resulted in Musk offering 19 year-old Jack Sweeney money to take the flight-tracking bot down.

So how much is this piece of Musk’s privacy or security worth to him?

He offered Sweeney $5,000.00

The teen countered with a request for $50,000.

Read more about this matter at Protocol. So far, there has been no announcement of any agreement.

 

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