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Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by beeflet »

xer0x wrote: post #35
nh43215rgb wrote: post #33

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Cloudflare making sites unavailable?

Have I been cloudflare'd?

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by ccgreg »

mertd wrote: post #34
ccgreg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people park at their home and many drive to work. If you have both of those data points, you can identify people.

That's not very useful? For homeowners, the real estate transactions are public and majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts.

So, from home and work, you identify me. Then you figure out which church I attend, and which strip club I attend.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by amazingman »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9
habinero wrote: post #2

I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.

With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?

Checksum?

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by kmoser »

VoidWhisperer wrote: post #36
pilingual wrote: post #20

Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv" What a sick society we live in.

This unfortunately wouldn't work quite as well in states where cars arent required to have a front facing license plate (like florida)

The camera could be separate from the billboard, and point at the backs of the cars. The billboard would be a short distance past that.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by MangoToupe »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #16
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?

Sell it to the cops and/or ICE as belonging to "self-identified persons of interest."

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Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by dragonwriter »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9
habinero wrote: post #2

I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.

With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?

> With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?

For typical users not taking extra precautions, visiting a page in a browser is providing additional identifying info, a fact that monetization of the free-as-in-beer web relies heavily upon, but which can be leveraged in other ways, e.g., by a site that draws you in with privacy fears as a technique to get you to submit additional information that can be correlated with it.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by hopelite »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #14
tptacek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.

> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete. They're not a public body, that was my point

They de facto are because they only place cameras in public places and on public land by contract with the government in one form or another; be it with a treasonous sheriff or a treasonous state executive and legislature. The public would not be talking about Flock if they had not worked to create a treasonous surveillance state and instead only did things like monitored truck movements in a logistics depot. The private contracts for things like HOA neighborhoods and corporations, e.g., big box store loss prevention and customer data tracking, but those’s are a totally different issue that have nothing to do with the use of public funds and power for mass surveillance.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by hopelite »

habinero wrote: post #2

I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.

I totally understand your sentiment, but you could just check a random assortment of license plate numbers you collected while driving around, which also includes yours. At the very least that would effectively obfuscate your license plate sufficiently that it could not be attributed beyond other methods that likely already have done so.

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Post by hopelite »

drnick1 wrote: post #37
mertd wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not very useful? For homeowners, the real estate transactions are public and majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts.

> majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts. What a time to live in!

LinkedIn has always struck me like a kind of contemporary slave management/market place, only one in which pick-mes try to be the best alpha slave they can be.

The fact that you are linked in, as in a chain, sure does not help with dispelling my impression.

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