A fun cat-and-mouse game is being played between elon Musk, the world's richest man, and a 19-year-old college student. The brilliant teenage genius, named Jack Sweeney, designed and developed a robotic program that accurately and sensitively tracked billionaire Musk's private jets, raising Musk's safety concerns.
On January 27, local time, Musk, who was in "security considerations", proposed a one-time payment of $5,000, about 35,000 RMB of "honorarium" to this IT professional boy, asking Jack to delete the tracking mini program, but the other party refused. The visionary Jack, not to get paid more generously, but rather, he hopes to exchange it for an internship.
Jack Sweeney, 19, is a freshman at the University of Central Florida who is studying computer information technology. The mini-programs he developed, while using publicly shared data sources, needed sophisticated information technology to match transponder frequencies and separately available anonymous flight plans to identify and locate the aircraft's trajectory.
Why did Jack have such a deep knowledge and such a deep understanding of aviation systems at such a young age? It turned out that this was thanks to his father, Sweeney Sr., who was a worker in the aviation industry and had a lifelong hobby of "tracking airplanes" as well. This caused Jack to be infected by his father since he was a child.
In a short period of time, Jack developed a total of 15 mini-programs, including tracking the private jets of tech tycoons such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. But so far, the account that tracks Musk's plane, the most popular, sucks 8.8 million fans.
However, this "flow" seems to make Musk feel a little embarrassed, and he feels that he is being sniped. He tried to play a game of cat and mouse with Jack, and the day before Musk's plane landed in Austin, Texas, and the next afternoon, it suddenly appeared in Los Angeles. The cunning Musk even used a "blocking program" to stop tracking. Then, they were all successfully captured by the small program designed by Jack.
Musk has not replied whether he will give Jack a chance to work at tesla or Space X, but jack has now become a dazzling, rising star.