Could someone devise a SQL injection attack using a custom-made license plate? I'm imagining someone printing up x'; DROP TABLE drivers; -- on a plate, and driving up and down the highway past automated license-plate readers.
Already done in Poland.
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
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Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
All we had to do was register our cars in each others names. When I was married, my car was registered to her and vice versa. The redlight/photoradar laws in my state required that the company operating the devices had to match the pic of the driver violating the law, to the pic of the registered owner via the license plate. If they couldn't match them, no ticket was issued as you can't prove who was driving. That's…
Or get a right-hand drive car: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081607/Speeding-pu...
Is it true that in England, the person sitting next to the driver IS the driver?
:)
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#183Reminds me of the story of Ireland's worst Polish driver who never got caught: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....
I've also heard a similar story of a Finnish man who got a ticket in the UK, and on closer inspection found his name on the ticket listed as Mr. Ajokortti Körkort. Thats "driver's licence", first in Finnish, then Swedish, and is written at the top of the driver's license card. That said, I find these stories a little hard to credit, since you'd expect police officers in the EU to be fairly familiar with the standard…
I once had a BevMo cashier in California ask me, “Massachusetts? Is that in Canada?”
Very little faith left.
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#184A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…
>Avoid backticks in passwords.
Is there even a reason to include special characters in passwords? They add 10% more security[1] but cause all sorts of issues with systems. Just use an alphanumeric password that's 10% longer, and if special characters are mandatory, use a safe character at the end like _ or -.
[1] 6.55 bits per character (all printable ascii characters) rather than 5.95 (only alphanumeric)
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know what "die on" is - it's just inappropriate in the context: nothing bad has actually happened to him.
You obviously still don’t know what the phrase “choosing to die on a hill” means.
Yeah, just b/c he is stubborn enough and doesn't wish to give up his vanity plate instead of folding. Pretty much nothing that hard/uphill battle has happened to him.
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#186When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web form very easily and succeed every time. Naturally I removed the badges from my car and put on different badges from another manufacturer. After a while they started to cite me as “other” and the trick no longer worked.
I knew a kid in college who would get a ticket, and then look around the parking lot for another Black Nissan Maxima. Most people don't actually look at the plate number, just the make model. I think he got one ticket paid this way ... guy was kinda an asshole.
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#187Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#188I recently saw a car with a license plate of B8B88BB8 (or something to that effect) that I am almost certain the owner chose to make it hard to read and transcribe correctly by either humans or computer vision systems. I was honestly kind of impressed.
I read that someone tried to register a license plate with a random sequence of Os and zeros (e.g. "OO0O00"). Unfortunately, it worked too well because the person doing data entry at the DMV ordered him a plate with all Os. :)
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#189When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web form very easily and succeed every time. Naturally I removed the badges from my car and put on different badges from another manufacturer. After a while they started to cite me as “other” and the trick no longer worked.
Relevant xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/1105/
I actually saw a car with a license plate like this last week. Some combination of I's and 1's. White Ford Mustang driving around Santa Clara.
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#190A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…
Once upon a time, I went through my logins and tried to change them to strings with weird characters. I ended up with a password of on an internal school site and couldn't change it to anything else, since the "change password" site somehow rejected it.