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magnetosphere
fedia.io

So… all I have to do to ensure my right to privacy is spend several hundred dollars and make my car ugly as sin.

Please pardon my lack of enthusiasm.

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lyrialreply
anarchist.nexus

Reminds me of the guy that had "NULL" on a vanity plate that broke some systems. It didn't end too well iirc.

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atrielienzreply
lemmy.world

https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

It didn't end well because their system was bad, not because he did anything particularly wrong. CA fucked up and gave him every ticket where a cop had typed in NULL while simultaneously allowing him to use NULL as a license plate number. I honestly think he should sue.

It broke the website when he tried to renew. He ended up using a reference number to renew instead and that means (so far as I can tell) someone somewhere on the DMV knew this was a problem and tried to fix it. The only problem is they didn't fix it and didn't notify him that his plate was no longer allowed. He should have received a letter about it.

Every cop who didn't fill in the license plate number for a ticket should be on the hook too.

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