that xkcd is… completely irrelevant to the post.
Replace “all 1’s or something” with “drop database or something” and it 100% applies.
and replace pork steak with tofu chilli bowl and it is now vegetarian food. what is your point?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke. What are we talking about again?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke.
No, she would be human with two wheels. That is not what a bicycle is
What are we talking about again?
We are talking about the fact that when someone says “that is not relevant”, countering with “if some facts were different, it would suddenly be relevant” is not very useful answer.
You also have to “change facts” to have the Bobby Tables xkcd apply here, because this is about plates and not children.
It doesn’t have to apply 100% to be a relevant xkcd, they just posted it because, like op’s pic, it’s about a person trying to be clever by messing with speed cameras, but everyone would know whose fault is it the second time it happens because of how weird the plate is.
Your one obviously applies more, but there’s no need to gatekeep.
because this is about plates and not children.
but this isn’t about plates, it is about sql injection.
but everyone would know whose fault is it the second time it happens because of how weird the plate is.
this is obviously not official plate that would be registered to his name, so they would have no idea unless they caught him red-handed.
but there’s no need to gatekeep.
well, yes, i could have phrased that differently
But if you stuck a license plate to a child then it would be a car
Im suddenly hungry for carbonara
Makes me wonder if the Lucky 10,000 comic came out because of how often people might’ve said “everybody’s seen that XKCD”.
I’m pretty sure the cameras around here don’t use OCR at all or even if it does it only recognizes the format for plates from a thing shaped like a plate. So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.
The Bobby Tables one I’m quite sure would work at least on some systems if they let you input your kids name by yourself to some sort of digital form. Or at least I would be pretty surprised if every school system on earth would be patched against simple sql injections.
So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.
the only thing they have in common is the license plate. that is like saying that every joke that starts with “three people walk into a bar” is basically the same joke.
but here, have a photo that is actually relevant to the submitted xkcd ;)
I feel like one Z should be a 2 for good measure
is this your car?
no
The license plate cameras near me simply take a photo when motion is detected and send it to the server or stores it until connection is reestablished. Then they use image recognition on the car to determine the make and model and on the license plate. They also claim that they can record items such as bumper stickers or body damage. I think that they probably have humans review cars that don’t match exactly. My guess is that they use object detection to isolate the license plate, but you could probably make one by printing text onto a piece of paper and gluing it onto some cardboard. I also think you could mess with it if you put a decal of a letter or number next to your license plate.
Mvp
Cool username
Not always a good idea
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
according to Tartaro, he says he received a notice that the California DMV would not let him renew his registration unless he actually paid some of those fines.
that sounds so illegal. but i am not an american, so what do i know.
California will do a lot more than deny a renewal over unpaid fines. First they’ll double the fine the first day that you are late, and then they’ll add more fees every day until it is paid. Eventually, I think it’s after six months or a year, they’ll suspend your driver’s license, and after that they’ll issue a bench warrant for your arrest. So it’s entirely possible for your whole life to be ruined over a traffic ticket in California, culminating with you being thrown into prison.
ok, but while that is wild in itself, i assume that is under the assumption of them actually being your tickets. here we talk about situation where they demand the hero pays someone else’s tickets just because of the fault of their system.
That aligns perfectly from what I’ve seen from the California DMV. They do not give a fuck. They will do whatever their stupid little antiquated computer program tells them to do.
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Did you read the article? All those fines were from other people, erroneously applied to him when the police officer didn’t fill in the information on the citation.
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“There’s no way to know if he used the plate on dozens of vehicles in dozens of states, some at the same time.”
So then he’s innocent, case closed.
The standard is to assume innocence, not assume guilt
I doubt the guy had several different car makes on hand to commit some sort of nationwide parking violation spree with the same plate but different cars in places where it’s impossible to even drive between the two places in the time between both timestamps.
Huh? They’re not his fines. The software is just shit so it puts all fines with no license plate as matching his.
“He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents.
This is peak nottheonion material
How the heck does a system interpret a string value null as a literal null? That seems insane to me that there really is software out there written like this. “null” != null… Or so I thought, maybe there are languages out there that this can happen in easily? Or someone is storing the string value of null in a non nullable database column?
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God that’s such a good idea. Would it work the same if I did #N/A?
Only if your DMV does everything in Excel, so… maybe?
Can you explain the joke here? My neighbor has one of these on his truck, and it still doesn’t make any sense to me.
Your neighbor is the joke. (real answer: the sticker implies a cop would find being called gay very offensive, to the point of not pulling this person over. In reality the cop would likely just shoot you and say you were evading arrest or something while pissing on your corpse.)
So he’s into water sports?
the cop is.
Dude, settle down a little, or a lot.
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But then he’d be stuck being a cop for the rest of his life.
I think this would get you charged depending on the locality, do not try at home kids
Charging other people for your own incompetence has a special ring to it.
Not expecting someone to war drive a drop table query into an EZ pass database isn’t incompetence, n’or is not expecting any other vulnerability to be exploited unless you have specific training to look out for it.
Even master defensive coders won’t be able to write something that’s impenetrable, just difficult enough to break into that it isn’t worth it to 99.99999% of attackers.
Sanitizing your data is programming 101 when dealing with database entries
I miss ancient memes like this
Reminds me of the woman that got a fine for “driving in a bus lane” here in the UK. When she looked at the attached image on the fine it was of a woman walking in the street of a town she’d never been to. On that woman’s jumper was lettering that closely resembled her plates.
Made me think I could attach a sheet of card with the plate details of some arsehole I disliked, ride a bicycle down the bus lane and see if they start complaining about being fined. 😅
They’ll get the picture in the fine letter so make sure you give them your best one-finger salute
Well I was on google streetview giving their camera the finger, LOL!
Little Bobby tables learns to drive.
This is smart. When my son was learning, I put a magnetic ‘student driver’ sign on my car, too. More people should do this. It’s just polite.
L plates are a legal requirement here if that’s what you mean
They’re not required here. You just plop your child in your regular car with no changes whilst they’re learning. It’s insane. I bought a magnetic sign to warn people though, because that seems nuts to me.
I was making a joke tho.
Is there even a remotely possible chance something like that would work? I have to drive past a ALPR that checks for insurance every day. I wouldn’t mind plastering code across my tailgate in a design that resembles a license plate.
It actually did work, apparently:
not working in two different browsers, should it?
It’s a link to a comment on this subject that says:
Ok, so to explain. This DID happen,literally 500m from my home :) the system was designed to store reg plate numbers and later turned to a speed camera. The stunt was done by a few students of the Technical University, it did bring the whole db down. They tried to revive it, but ultimately the boards have been dead for the past 5 years or so. Mind that this hack was performed around 7 or 8 years ago:) I can provide pics of the dead board now and exact coordinates too:)
And then later in the replies they do give the coordinates of the camera billboard thing they broke, and someone posts a Google Maps screenshot of the board at the coordinates they gave that just looks like a little digital billboard that’s turned off and is just black, and the OP confirms that it is the board they mentioned.
Hope that all makes sense; I’ve got a lot brain fog/stress brain and stuff and it felt like too much to screenshot lol
Worth a shot. Wouldn’t surprise me if this backwoods town is vulnerable. That being said, I’m open to anyone’s code suggestions and I’ll slap it on there. My coding abilities are limited to BASIC and just enough C to make microcontrollers work.
They tried to revive it, but ultimately the boards have been dead for the past 5 years or so.
That’s a new level of incompetence, even for the government. So, after spending all that tax-payer money, they just let the entire project die rather than have a developer spin up a new database schema, which would take anyone competent like 5 minutes? For real? And these are the people that everyone expects to fix our problems?
This is complete guess work but I’m pretty sure its the kind of things that was put together by some office assistant not a developer.
Real parks and rec vibes.
I don’t know what a database is and it’s been too long im afraid to go ask
Highly unlikely.
I have been learning some database stuff today. Finally understand the drop table thing better.
This was actually tried btw. Mostly as a joke iirc
Edit: Looking into it, apparently it’s not confirmed. Damn, that was a very popular urban myth in french programming circles back in the 2010’s
This is awesome. Saved. LOL
