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Everything that disrupts surveillance is good. People concerned with the "fairness" of tolls and tickets, or that a criminal might benefit are just grown-ass hall-monitors and it's pathetic.
I disagree on this case. Disrupting surveillance blending unpaid tolls into society is one thing, but this doubles as identity theft with the burden placed on one innocent individual. It's not victimless in the sense a thief makes off with a few dollars saved like an obscured plate, it puts the accusation on a specific different person. They then have the legal trouble to deal with individually. This is something that should be as secure as a standard physical plate (which isn't truly that secure at all).
I heard somebody mention you find out what the license plate of a police officer is and put it on them so that they're the one that has to deal with the legal repercussions so that they will learn either that or they're very close family.
Yeah, it would be like committing crimes while fooling facial recognition to identify you as a random innocent person instead of just identifying no one.
I guess in the long run it could erode confidence in the system (I know it already misidentifies people regularly) but in the short term, innocents would suffer.
Yeah, there have been cases of people dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare that followed when they got vanity license plates that said "NULL" and a bunch of bad program logic combined with incomplete data in the databases to send them a bunch of tickets.
Making it so that people can take advantage of even more complex computer errors could ruin things for other people.
I agree. I'm totally down for anything that makes surveillance of the population harder. And if this fucks with automatic license plate readers and shit like that, I am totally all for it.