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Guy got the license plate “NULL” and it was a total disaster
- gattilorenz 6y ago> he hoped his NULL license plates would make it impossible, or at least difficult, for cops to give him a ticket, since they wouldn’t be able to enter the ticket into their system This might be bad reporting, but... Did he honestly expect absolutely no difference between NULL and "NULL"? That the system uses "NULL" for unrecognized plates is unfortunate and bad programming, of course, but still...
- gumby 6y agoNull and Root are actual surnames (“family names” in some parts of USA). These folks, especially Null family members, make it to the news from time to time. More interesting was the fellow who registered “NO PLATE” in California
- rkagerer 6y agoSpeaking at the Def Con hacking conference, Droogie explained how he hoped his NULL license plates would make it impossible, or at least difficult, for cops to give him a ticket, since they wouldn’t be able to enter the ticket into their system. That was dumb. He's broadcasting malicious intent. Better to just say it's a novelty and related to his work (which seems true).
- air7 6y agoWouldn't he have his own tickets flushes away with the hundreds of erroneous ones? Seems to have worked albeit with some extra labor.
- Tempest1981 6y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904
- catsarebetter 6y agoWonder if it's possible to do some sort of injection attack using this method.. guess there isn't enough characters
- dan_hawkins 6y agoObligatory XKCD [0] :) [0] https://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/
- chrisbennet 6y agoReminds me of "Little Bobby Tables". https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- Traster 6y agoSeems similar to Ireland's most prolific dangerous driver - Prawo Jazdy. Prawo Jazdy of course being the Polish term for driving license that the Irish police were mistaking for a name.