Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme

We at WIRED are winding down for the year and gearing up for what is sure to be an eventful 2023. This week, following a new surge in mayhem at Twitter, we dove into exactly why the public needs real-time flight tracking, even if Elon Musk claims it's the equivalent of doxing. The crucial transparency this publicly available data provides far outweighs the limited privacy value that censoring would give to the world's rich and powerful. Unfortunately, Musk's threats of legal action against the developer of the @ElonJet tracker are having broader chilling effects. Meanwhile, Iran's internet blackouts--a response to widespread civil rights protests--are sabotaging the country's economy, according to a new assessment from the US Department of State.