Like we actually need digital license plates.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:09:12 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evade traffic regulations or even law enforcement surveillance.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:50:36 -0400 from hubzilla

No one could have predicted this!! LOL

Bill Statler

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:36:51 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Is there a "stupidest tech invention" award?

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:48:19 -0400 from Y

In addition to the physical access and time necessary to pull off that hack, however, a license plate saboteur would also need to overcome a feature of Reviver's plates that sends a notification to the owner when it's detached from a vehicle. That would require jamming the plate's radio communications while tampering with it, Rodriguez notes, an added wrinkle that makes the attack even less practical, though perhaps not impossible.

They talk about making to harder to hack, but - if a license plate is just an LED screen with electronics, it can be replaced with any LED screen the same size with whatever electronics you want. And since it no longer needs to be sheet metal, you can just replace your sheet metal plate with an LED powered by a raspi and nobody would ever know. You don't have to remove a "legitimate" digital plate which might alert the owner.

I also have a metal roof. Drive it into the garage and it's not going to be sending any radio waves more than a couple of metres.