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Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898

High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim's license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera. The victim gets a $40 ticket in the mail days later, without any humans ever having been involved in the ticketing process. A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.

Comment Re:No mention of public wardriving websites? (Score 1) 71

I didn't include any of the upload/plotting sites like yours, nodedb, wigle.net, and others. Partly because I am a purist that prefers to gather and plot the data myself. Partly because it's a DIY book and the chapter was devoted to showing people how to make their own maps. And partly because of the unknown privacy implications of gathering and sharing this type of data in raw form. In any case, your site is a useful tool among others and should not be overlooked when that topic is being discussed.

btw, I support what you are doing. The SOCALWUG access point was one of your early data points: June 2002!

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