A 19-year-old Florida university student and aviation enthusiast says he has rejected a $5,000 offer from Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter bot he designed that tracks the comings and goings of the Tesla CEO's private jet.
, a Twitter bot he designed that tracks the comings and goings of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's private jet.
Sweeney later asked Musk to"up" his $5,000 offer to $50,000, about the cost of a Tesla Model 3, which Musk considered for over a month, before Sweeney said he would also consider removing the account for an internship.Sweeney said he has been interested in aviation and"everything Elon Musk and Tesla" for years before Musk reached out to him.
Sweeney said he believed Musk"a little bit" about the security risk but that he felt that because he has a security team, any concern was"just worry." "It would be like making a change to everybody's phone that they're using every day," Sweeney said."It's not like you could just easily change the system."
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