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US Security Researcher tries to fool ANPR with private plate "NULL"
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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 09:49
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Although this one is American, I thought people here might be interested. It didn't go well...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/201...s/#461a0353c314

Also covered by the Guardian (skip about half way down if you don't want to read about adversarial fashion)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/...illance-cameras

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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 11:00
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Not sure it has any relevance to us in UK.
USA plates can, within reason, be whatever someone wants.
If someone wants to use a word such as Null that is going to confuse the system and their DMV system allows it, more fool both parties.
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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 12:16
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I have a friend who is a US citizen and has ‘RUGBY’ as his current plate as he likes rugby.
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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 13:09
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This is apparently a regular occurrence, where the DMV is stupid enough to both allow marks that police might write on a ticket as meta data rather than a literal reading of the mark, and to fail to sanitise the data for those marks when their owner is requested.


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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 16:06
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There was a photo floating around the computer forums of a guy who had made a sticker up next to his plate with a semi-colon and some database commands in the hope that the ANPR system would read the plate and upon seeing the semi-colon, execute the next line which happened to be a request to drop the table, ie. to delete that part of the database.

Not sure how successful but it certainly made me laugh.

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post Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 17:40
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Wasn't there somebody in the States who had a plate made up entirely of 1, L, O and 0 because it would confuse ANPR and witnesses ?
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post Tue, 20 Aug 2019 - 07:02
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QUOTE (DancingDad @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 12:00) *
Not sure it has any relevance to us in UK.
USA plates can, within reason, be whatever someone wants.

While they obviously weed out applications which contain rude words, it's not necessarily clever enough to spot UK English words which are not in US English, such as a certain word beginning with "B" and ending in "ollocks".
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post Sun, 25 Aug 2019 - 10:17
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QUOTE (The Slithy Tove @ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 - 08:02) *
QUOTE (DancingDad @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 12:00) *
Not sure it has any relevance to us in UK.
USA plates can, within reason, be whatever someone wants.

While they obviously weed out applications which contain rude words, it's not necessarily clever enough to spot UK English words which are not in US English, such as a certain word beginning with "B" and ending in "ollocks".


I served in Virginia in the 90s. There was a UK civilian with us who had the plate Bollox. When asked at the DMV, he replied that it was the name of his dog.

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post Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 10:01
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I found an antique camera with the name Bolux

Apparently it was also the originally intended trade name for a well-known paint that featured an old English sheepdog in its adverts
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post Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 10:31
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Language, especially slang can be a minefield.
Ford in Cologne were well on the way to marketing a Sports Injection version of the Ka.
Until UK Ford engineers pointed out that they would be trying to sell a KaSi in the UK.
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post Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 14:20
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Mitsubishi Stallion anyone?


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post Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 15:11
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Don’t you mean Pajero?

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pajero.31083/

Or Laputa?

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post Tue, 27 Aug 2019 - 08:30
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I work with many organisations in the far-east and the continual confusing of "l" and "r" never ceases to amuse me. It really does conform to the old Benny Hill stereotype.

My favourite however is the unfortunate choice of "western name" by a young guy in Taipei who decide to adopt the moniker "Charles". Unfortunately, his "research" was limited to writing out the name phonetically as he wanted to pronounce it and then ordering business cards boldly emblazoned with the name "Chaos" (Cha-os).
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