I see what you're saying, but IMO the newsworthy information in the article is that there are electronic plates available to begin with. It just seems like such a bad idea from every angle you look at it. The hacking of them is simply stating the inevitable but it is just one issue in a large pile of BS even an honest purchaser would have to deal with using these things.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also think they are a bad idea, just for the general scale issue if not anything else. If person X from GeneralScammyHack country wants to steal my plate to sell on the darknet, they have to get on a plane, find my house in suburbia, break into my garage and even then find a proprietary screwdriver or hit the snap on truck before they come. Point is, they can't hack it. Same with my license, like they need to come take my wallet or I need to lose it. Basically all I have to worry about is Methany peeling my plate off at the 7-11 and committing some super low level impropriety, maybe a local murder or two. I'm not going to find Jason Bourne using my plate in New Jersey or anything like that, and if I do, it's just odds and quite an involved level of forgery.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

I think it's great because I am pro privacy. Luigi had to leave on a bike because of the surveillance state and still got caught. The more we make their tracking systems useless the better.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does free up our prisoners for other slave labor tasks

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago