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Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by floren »

russdill wrote: post #158
bambax wrote: post #70

The DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) had revolving licence plates. A cursory Google search comes up with some shady websites that sell similar tech, but it would be a nice DIY project to make a licence plate screen that can be changed on the fly (e-ink based maybe). Has anyone tried it?

A really good hack to get around the fact that motor vehicles are by law easily traceable is to...just take mass transit.

But when mass transit phases out paper tickets, "use the convenient app for a 20% discount!", it's not much better...

Even with paper tickets, if you paid with a credit card there's now a perfect record: Jim Smith got on at the Fruitvale station and got off in Fremont, stayed there two hours, and then came back the same way.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by ioslipstream »

ameister14 wrote: post #133
ioslipstream wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Portland, amongst others.

How many people died in the Portland firebombings? How much property was destroyed? Are we talking Dresden or Kobe levels? Because when you say 'firebombing nightly for months', that's what I think of.

BLM caused billions worth of damage over the course of the summer of love.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by m463 »

runlevel1 wrote: post #118
londons_explore wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will place and maintain road cameras for $50/yr, including data connectivity for plates. Minimum 1,000 cameras. 75% uptime/scan rate guarantee.

For reference: Speed cameras have an annual operating cost of ~$30,000/year.[1] [1]: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

I suspect speed cameras have to produce results that are verifiable in court, while ALPR cameras just best-effort help locate cars.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by acdha »

tzs wrote: post #148
acdha wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A bike is a great mode of transportation when you don't need to carry anything heavy, bulky, passengers etc. and when weather permits. My family uses our cargo bikes as our primary mode of transportation year round. It turns out that children were allowed to leave the house prior to the invention of cars and continue to be capable of wearing jackets in the winter. Many even like the snow. The key thing to understan…

That $11k/year figure is based on 15000 miles/year usage which is close to the average annual mileage per driver in the US.

Yes - I think we broke 14k miles on average last year, and I’d bet AAA’s membership skews above average since people who don’t depend on daily commutes are less likely to join.

https://newsroom.aaa.com/2022/08/annual-cost-of-new-car-owne...

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by m463 »

samstave wrote: post #143
Rygian wrote: post #2

The gist of it: I can subscribe to location updates for any license plate that I want, without knowledge or consent from the owner of that car.

did you know that the city of Menlo Park california requires companies to have cameras which can see for miles and track and report all vehicles that drive by them.... look up the largest company in menlo park...

a friend of mine told me - a few years ago - that BART had >4k cameras everywhere. He thought it might be enough to see fingerprints.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by slowhand09 »

tmh88j wrote: post #155
slowhand09 wrote: post #149

I'm surprised my idea from 10 yrs ago hasn't been monetized. It was an lcd cover that could be made in license plate size, with a remote controller which could dim/darken/blackout the cover. Or in Deluxe mode, activate lines randomly which would result in a different number. Then again... somebody is out front in this technology space. https://www.newsweek.com/what-are-digital-license-plates-how...

I'm not surprised, it sounds illegal for the purpose you described. It's illegal just to own plate flipping devices without even using them in some states. Surely that would be too. > A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence uses, purchases, possesses, manufactures, sells, offers to sell, or otherwise distributes a license plate flipper. An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemea…

My intended used was for parked vehicles. Not to avoid moving violations.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by dylan604 »

floren wrote: post #161
russdill wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A really good hack to get around the fact that motor vehicles are by law easily traceable is to...just take mass transit.

But when mass transit phases out paper tickets, "use the convenient app for a 20% discount!", it's not much better... Even with paper tickets, if you paid with a credit card there's now a perfect record: Jim Smith got on at the Fruitvale station and got off in Fremont, stayed there two hours, and then came back the same way.

the old trick at the air port was to buy mulitple tickets leaving around the same time to different destinations at multiple airports ultimately traveling under false ID under a different name. that's surely feasible for pretty much anybody not just super spies, right?

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by dylan604 »

rozab wrote: post #141
bambax wrote: post #70

The DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) had revolving licence plates. A cursory Google search comes up with some shady websites that sell similar tech, but it would be a nice DIY project to make a licence plate screen that can be changed on the fly (e-ink based maybe). Has anyone tried it?

This would be flagged immediately. Law enforcement cameras check the plate against the registered make, model, and colour (which are public record in the UK)

What happens if you paint your car? Are you supposed to inform your gov't?

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by remus »

bambax wrote: post #70

The DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) had revolving licence plates. A cursory Google search comes up with some shady websites that sell similar tech, but it would be a nice DIY project to make a licence plate screen that can be changed on the fly (e-ink based maybe). Has anyone tried it?

I remember a story of a guy who had his license plate on a hinge with a little cable attached to the cigarette lighter in the car. When he wanted to speed in an area with cameras he'd pull out the cigarette lighter to fold the plate up, then pop it back in to fold the plate down when he was finished. This struck me as a very neat solution, and nicely disguised too.

Re: Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

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Post by mwcremer »

bambax wrote: post #70

The DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) had revolving licence plates. A cursory Google search comes up with some shady websites that sell similar tech, but it would be a nice DIY project to make a licence plate screen that can be changed on the fly (e-ink based maybe). Has anyone tried it?

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1105/
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