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It would be cool if you could do punctuation so you cloud get "'; drop table;" alas little Bobby Droptables will likely never get that plate. :-)
I did see a plate "I0X45" which was a cute nerd joke, I expect that would be more difficult to get these days.
A 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)
That's not how this works. By your logic having a password consisting of 1,2,3,4 is only twice as secure as having just 1,2.
BTW, California has a problem with issuing both plates with 0 (zero) and O (letter) in them. They both look the same.
I 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.
This thought had come to me a few years ago and I've always wanted to try it. Never got around to it, though. - 1Iil - B8 - 0Oo Examples: - i1lIil1I - 8BBil8I1
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These tickets were issued by a privately operated citation processing center.
My state doesn't allow for private companies to automatically mail you a ticket but requires an officer pull you over and cite you.