Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

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• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who the fuck is buying a digital license plate for $499 and a $8/mo subscription? Why does it need a subscription? Wtf?

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  • quixotic120@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone who regularly skips tolls and runs red lights and knows this vulnerability exists?

    Reading the article the subscription can be bypassed with the jailbreak. A red light camera ticket is $100 here, so 5 of those and the plate has paid for itself.

    Of course, you could also not drive like a shithead, but where there’s a will there’s a way and all

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      $100 holy shit that’s so cheap! red light cameras here (melbourne, aus) are $495 (~$315USD)

      our speeding fines go up to $2272 (45km/h+ over - ~28mph)

      www.vic.gov.au/camera-fines-and-penalties

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe to game the system by hacking it

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anything that makes evading law enforcement surveillance is good in my book. Personally, if you’re going to hack them in order to avoid traffic issues, please use the license plates of police officers instead so that they have to investigate themselves. Please don’t use like little old ladies or something. That would be mean.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That would make you incredibly conspicuous. Instead, using it on the family of police officers. All the fun of robbing an old woman but with in a clean, anti-authoritarian aftertaste.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Perfect!

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s not surveillance… having a license plate on a motor vehicle has NOTHING to do with surveillance.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, but the proliferation of automated license plate readers and location tracking through them is definitely surveillance. And therefore, if changing your license plate number trivially can make that damn near impossible, I’m all for it.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, it is also pretty trivial to just steal a license plate. Or even to put a decal on the back of your license plate to make that 9 into an 8 and so forth.

  The reality is the same as with a digital one. If your number is for a stolen car or an amber alert, you are gonna have a bad time. Otherwise? You are fine for a red light camera. You are fucked once the cop pulls you over and wants to see your license and registration and realizes the plate doesn’t match.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    APR systems also exist and are installed in a good portion of police cars. Likely to get flagged if the plate and make/model do not match.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are a lot of misconceptions regarding how effective the automated scanners are.

      In theory? Yes, you can compare the license plate against the make and model and even color of the car. And there are plenty of demos of exactly that.

      In reality? It is almost never used outside of something completely egregious like “This says this is a sedan but that is actually a giant semi truck”. Because cars just aren’t distinct enough for this to be reliable enough to justify the cop brushing the donut off their stomaches, trying to remember where they left their gun, and tapping on a window.

      What it IS good for is checking for plates that have an APB out on them (so the amber alert scenario) and making up a bullshit excuse for why a black person’s car needs to be checked.

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