Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evade traffic regulations or even law enforcement surveillance.
  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
    1·
    3 days ago

    … Rodriguez also notes that jailbreaking the plates could also allow drivers to use the plates’ features without paying Reviver’s $29.99 monthly subscription fee.

    This deserved to get hacked then.

    That’s brazenly exploitative to charge a subscription for what amounts to a digital picture frame of your license plate

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
    56·
    6 days ago

    It’s insane to me that any government would approve “digital licence plates”. Clowns making decisions “because we can”, not “because we should”. Result: a circus.

    • comador @lemmy.world
      22·
      6 days ago

      When they first started this idea in California I made a 6-pack of beer bet with fellow IT programmers on how long it would take to hack these lol.

      I lost because it happened later than I expected and now the winner gets 4 x 6-packs of micro beers of their choosing.

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
    13·
    5 days ago

    Digital license plates are a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist -

    But it is a money maker for the manufacturer at a subscription price of $29.99 / month

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    151·
    6 days ago

    Imagine if this plate display could be driven by a low-end smartphone app running software that keeps GPS track of the vehicle;

    • When the vehicle is parked at home; it displays a decoy/vanity/decorative plate.
    • When the vehicle is on the road; at reasonable speeds it displays the “Default” Legal plate number…unless you signal it not to.
    • When the vehicle is speeding or near a known ALPR camera; it shifts the plate number to a randomly numbered decoy plate number.
    • When the vehicle is parked somewhere else; it chooses a random plate number and shifts that number every 1-2 hours at random odd intervals.
    • When you toggle a certain setting on your personal device; it just sticks to a random plate number or current plate for an hour or two. (So you can get out of sight before it shifts again, in case you’re being watched.)
  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    211·
    6 days ago

    Why would people buy into digital license plates? The article said they have GSP tracking. Do we really want to be tracked even more? I guess this will just be forced on us. We need to resist it!

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
      23·
      6 days ago

      I’ve never heard of them so I googled it and these fucking things are $500 per plate to start from some private company and are listed as a “theft deterrent.” Apparently they don’t realize that it takes 20 seconds and a screwdriver to defeat these.

      What a stupid idea and I’m pissed that yet another private company gets to take over a government function and charge high fees (after just returning from a trip where a bunch of vultures were circling the security lines trying to get people to sign up for Clear+, another private company, at $199/yr in order to bypass the long TSA checkpoint).