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Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by monocasa »

mehrdadn wrote: post #192
gruez wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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)

> 10% more security (6.55 vs. 5.95 bits per character) 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.

That's absolutely how bits of entropy work.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by tooop »

monocasa wrote: post #217
tooop wrote: post #170

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Where i am from the ticket is issued to the vehicle owner, doesn't matter who was driving. On the plus side it means that you can get a photoradar ticket for driving 300km/h and not lose your licence, just pay the fine. P.S. If the driver must be recognized does it mean that motorcyclists are exempt from photoradar fines?

I thought that motorcycles already didn't really show up on the photoradar scanners. That's the way it is here, but I can totally see that being a jurisdiction by jurisdiction thing.

Here it is easier to avoid getting a photo with motorcycle because there are places where it targets front plate. If photoradar targets back plate then you will get a ticket for a motorcycle just like any car.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by [deleted] »

mehrdadn wrote: post #192
gruez wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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)

> 10% more security (6.55 vs. 5.95 bits per character) 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.

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Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by eitland »

beagle3 wrote: post #182
joezydeco wrote: post #162

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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? :)

It is true in Norway if someone is practice driving; the grown up in the passenger seat is the driver.

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Post by cgriswald »

djsumdog wrote: post #186
_lo3k wrote: post #6

When 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.

Someone tried that on me on campus but I noticed. I wasn’t supposed to be parked there either and was skating by on a technicality that worked as long as no one looked too closely into it. Otherwise I’d have called security and made his life uncomfortable for awhile. As far as I’m concerned, it’s fraud.

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Post by Ambroos »

linker3000 wrote: post #132

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…

Similarly, my Belgian ISP (Telenet) has WiFi home gateways that are configured by their web portal, and config is pushed by the ISP.

I figured out that they only did validation on SSIDs client-side, so managed to get around that to put emoji's in my SSID.

Which then proceeded to soft-brick the entire thing on config push. I'd have to log in to the web portal via another connection, change the SSID there, and then reset the hardware with the reset button to get internet working again.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by mieseratte »

entropicdrifter wrote: post #200
mieseratte wrote: post #172

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My state doesn't allow for private companies to automatically mail you a ticket but requires an officer pull you over and cite you.

In any state private companies' tickets don't count since they aren't issued by an officer of the court. You can just straight up ignore red light camera tickets.

> You can just straight up ignore red light camera tickets.

How does that work? They send you a ticket you're under no obligation to pay or otherwise respond to? What's the incentive?

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by madcaptenor »

diatribattical wrote: post #183
rebuilder wrote: post #168

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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.

I once had a cab driver take me to MIT. Cab driver: "what is this place?" Me: "MIT" Cab driver: "what's MIT?" Me: "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Cab driver: "what's Massachusetts?"

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by mfoy_ »

mehrdadn wrote: post #192
gruez wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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)

> 10% more security (6.55 vs. 5.95 bits per character) 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.

According to KeePass2, the password: "12" contains 7 bits of entropy, but "1234" only contains 5 bits of entropy.

Is that right?

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