US Security Researcher tries to fool ANPR with private plate "NULL" |
US Security Researcher tries to fool ANPR with private plate "NULL" |
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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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 09:49
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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 11:00
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Member Group: Members Posts: 25,726 Joined: 28 Jun 2010 From: Area 51 Member No.: 38,559 |
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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Guest_Charlie1010_* |
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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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 13:09
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Webmaster Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,205 Joined: 30 Mar 2003 From: Wokingham, UK Member No.: 2 |
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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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 16:06
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Member Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 15 Aug 2019 Member No.: 105,250 |
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. This post has been edited by Formfeed: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 16:06 |
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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 - 17:40
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Member Group: Members Posts: 4,126 Joined: 31 Jan 2018 Member No.: 96,238 |
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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Tue, 20 Aug 2019 - 07:02
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Member Group: Members Posts: 3,283 Joined: 5 Jan 2012 Member No.: 52,178 |
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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Sun, 25 Aug 2019 - 10:17
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Member Group: Members Posts: 1,013 Joined: 17 Oct 2012 Member No.: 57,735 |
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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Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 10:01
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Member Group: Members Posts: 4,126 Joined: 31 Jan 2018 Member No.: 96,238 |
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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Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 10:31
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Member Group: Members Posts: 25,726 Joined: 28 Jun 2010 From: Area 51 Member No.: 38,559 |
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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Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 14:20
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Member Group: Members Posts: 56,196 Joined: 9 Sep 2003 From: Warwickshire Member No.: 317 |
Mitsubishi Stallion anyone?
-------------------- There is no such thing as a law abiding motorist, just those who have been scammed and those yet to be scammed!
S172's Rookies 1-0 Kent Council PCN's Rookies 1-0 Warwick Rookies 1-0 Birmingham PPC PCN's Rookies 10-0 PPC's |
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Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 15:11
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Don’t you mean Pajero?
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pajero.31083/ Or Laputa? This post has been edited by Charlie1010: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 15:13 |
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Tue, 27 Aug 2019 - 08:30
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Member Group: Members Posts: 1,423 Joined: 15 Apr 2009 From: Winnersh, UK Member No.: 27,840 |
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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