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How about this: e-ink plates plus public-key cryptography. You’re suggesting that a solid plate of metal that can sit, neglected, out in the weather for multip
by mikestew 4y ago
How about this: e-ink plates plus public-key cryptography.
You’re suggesting that a solid plate of metal that can sit, neglected, out in the weather for multiple years without much visual wear, and when damaged by the car wash can just be bent back to shape, and replace that with your delicate little piece of electronics and software? And pile on some PKI to boot?
I’m seriously on the fence in deciding if this comment is trolling me, or if this is what late-stage HN looks like. :-)
- livueta 4y agoIt was definitely at least partially tongue-in-cheek ^_^ I bet you could figure out the physical aspects. E-ink tech itself has come a long way in the last few years following some patent expirations, and the electronics stuff is basically just a yubikey JB welded to a license plate frame. The cost per unit would be pretty low at scale, so just replacing borked units seems pretty doable. Imo, a bigger problem is competent implementation. Yeah sure, the DOL is gonna run a bunch of PKI infrastructure and not mess that up. At least in my region, just keeping a largely static website up seems to be a struggle.