Student tracking Elon Musk’s jet defends his program, considers legal threat a bluff
Despite a threat of legal action from Elon Musk, Jack Sweeney said he believes in the value of tracking private jets of celebrities and thinks Musk is bluffing. Jack Sweeney said he thinks Elon Musk's threat to sue him for sharing the status of his private jet is most likely a bluff . "I don't think that'll happen," Sweeney said in an interview with ABC News. "That would just continue to look worse for him." The 20-year-old University of Central Florida student and self-proclaimed aviation fan developed a program to track the whereabouts of private planes, including Elon Musk's. Since creating the program as his first coding project, Sweeney said he gradually gained followers and even attracted a $5,000 offer from Musk last January to take down the Twitter account that linked to the program and help make it harder to track Musk, but their negotiations stalled. He ran tracking accounts for multiple planes associated with celebrities and gov...