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.
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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.
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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
“There’s no way to prove him guilty so he should have to pay!”
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.
“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?
May I introduce you to our lord and savior JavaScript?
Javas Christ.
But even in JavaScript a string representation of null is not equal to a null literal. ‘null’ or “null” are not the same as null
Paywalled
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.)
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I think this would get you charged depending on the locality, do not try at home kids
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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.
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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.
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
