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Re: Find SF parking cops

#22

Very well done! Outstanding site, it is clear and easy to use. I supposed you'll be forced offline soon due to legal threats.

If the goal is to prevent this kind of thing, it would probably be better to just not put the ticket info online, publicly visible, in real time.

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Re: Find SF parking cops

#24
Part of me says, “What a clever hack! Can I get a notification feature wrt where I parked?”

The other part of me says “Can we just use Public goods more responsibly instead of scratching and clawing our way through maximizing every second of monopolizing public spaces for our personal property storage”

Re: Find SF parking cops

#26

Officer 0336 is raking it in for the city. I wonder if there is a correlation with the areas which generate a lot of tickets and other city datasets. Perhaps crime rate or average household income?

It's is amusing that you question whether parking citations correlate with crime rates. The reason they give out tickets for this is that these people have parked unlawfully.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#27

Very well done! Outstanding site, it is clear and easy to use. I supposed you'll be forced offline soon due to legal threats.

If the goal is to prevent this kind of thing, it would probably be better to just not put the ticket info online, publicly visible, in real time.

It looks like this system applied security through obscurity, more or less, though.

I doubt it's the intention of the system to make all tickets "publicly visible" in this way.

I'm not sure we'll legal threats involved (who knows, hopefully not) but I suspect the city will be motivated to find some way to lock down the system to prevent this kind of enumeration attack on their database.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#30

Amazing. Would be even better if it kept everything in Pacific time. A little confusing to see “3 hours ago” just because I’m on the East Coast.

As someone from Europe I was a bit confused why SF parking cops seemed to only work throughout the night.
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