Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains

    • lyrial@anarchist.nexus
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      1 day ago

      Reminds me of the guy that had “NULL” on a vanity plate that broke some systems. It didn’t end too well iirc.

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        22 hours ago

        https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

        It didn’t end well because their system was bad, not because he did anything particularly wrong. CA fucked up and gave him every ticket where a cop had typed in NULL while simultaneously allowing him to use NULL as a license plate number. I honestly think he should sue.

        It broke the website when he tried to renew. He ended up using a reference number to renew instead and that means (so far as I can tell) someone somewhere on the DMV knew this was a problem and tried to fix it. The only problem is they didn’t fix it and didn’t notify him that his plate was no longer allowed. He should have received a letter about it.

        Every cop who didn’t fill in the license plate number for a ticket should be on the hook too.