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The plate is pretty trivial to fake though. For one thing you can just remove it, but it's trivial to alter with just spray paint. Or using an outdated plate, o
by throwaway27448 9mo ago
The plate is pretty trivial to fake though. For one thing you can just remove it, but it's trivial to alter with just spray paint. Or using an outdated plate, or someone else's plate, etc. it's identifying sort of how an phone number is supposed to be identifying: nominal, but not secure and trivially abused for fraud
- Asmod4n 9mo agoIn Europe and the US all new vehicles now have a visible ID under their front window glass, it’s called a VIN. It’s even standardized where it must be.
- caseyohara 9mo agoAre there cameras that can actually read VINs on moving vehicles?
- ale42 9mo agoI'm pretty sure it should be possible if one really wants to do it. Think of a high-power IR flash and a high-res camera synchronized with the flash, with fixed focus on where the VIN would be passing. If the flash pulse is short but strong enough, it should be possible to read the VIN. Maybe some polarizing filters to remove glass reflections are needed.
- Barbing 9mo agoI wonder what the first vehicle to have the VIN under the windshield was. I believe I saw that for the first time maybe 20 years ago (USA).
- wlesieutre 9mo agoThis says 1969 https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2549&context=caselrev#:~:text=For%20cars%20manufactured%20after%201969,windshield%2C%20from%20outside%20the%20vehicle. https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
- franga2000 9mo agoIt's trivial if you're concealing your conceal your identity when committing a crime, but a huge pain in the ass and a crime itself if you just want to protect yourself from creeps tracking you.
- ale42 9mo ago> The plate is pretty trivial to fake though. Sure it is, but people can't realistically think to randomize their plate numbers to avoid tracking... IANAL but is it probably a criminal offense to do so.