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What's funny is secure IDs could have easily prevented this but, even if the city discovers it and wants to shut it down now, I'd bet actually fixing the system
by jonahx 1y ago
What's funny is secure IDs could have easily prevented this but, even if the city discovers it and wants to shut it down now, I'd bet actually fixing the system would be too costly (IDs tend to couple to everything).
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- mulmen 1y agoJust add a delay.
- odensc 1y agoPretty simple fix: require more data to look up a citation, like the number, issue date and plate/VIN (this is how my city does it). Technically doesn't make the scraping impossible if you wanna try every permutation of a license plate, but makes it mostly infeasible. Currently it just requires the sequential citation number [1], which is how the data is being scraped so easily. [1]: https://wmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/input.jsp https://wmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/input...
- edm0nd 1y agosuper easy fix just update all the tickets at the end of the day in one single batch / put time delay on the data renders the site useless instantly