>Late last year, California became only the third state in the US to allow digital license plates. The fancy customizable plates are only available from a company called Reviver, which charges users $20 to $25 per month.

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Ok, I see the issue here...we're entitling a bunch of pretentious idiots with more money then common sense and acting like this isn't a problem that everybody could see coming a mile away.

Officer His Liscence was, wait, no its, No officer Im not dwi!

> Reviver swore that the DMV-certified cloud service backing the plates was entirely secure.

Because if there's one thing I always believe, it's a tech company that assures everyone that they are "hack proof". /s

I read about how the hackers broke in and holy hell it's embarrassing. Basically they left a bunch of validation up to the client instead of enforcing it on the server. Hackers just emulated their own client and forged a different fields in the request and the server just let them do it.

Who allowed this ridiculous system to be legal, and how much were they bribed?

I’m not even going to go into the joke of security this company used. But why the hell is a digital license plate even a thing? What purpose does this serve?

Love it. Some people have more teeth than sense.

it's purpose is to separate idiots from their money.

For the general public, the benefits are minor (stolen car alerts, toll road passes, registraion renewals through the electronic plate, etc.) . However, electronic plates will be a game changer for commercial carriers/semi truck drivers. Companies can just turn off a plate when a driver leaves the business. A surprising amount of companies struggle to get plates back from drivers. This means that they have to contact their local DMV and could run into issues with their safety record if the driver continues running on that plate.

Not to mention the assurances from your state’s DMV, at the very center of technological innovation.

>A team of security researchers hacking around in the automotive industry was able to easily gain access to Reviver’s system, revealing the real-time GPS location of all vehicles

😳

Got em

So it's only the practically speaking invisible bottom text that can be changed?

This actually makes sense.

Why? Like how often would you want to change your license plate?

That truck issues sounds more like a legal problem, that could (and should) be solved in a lot of different ways.

Not every idea is a good idea, especially without any oversight or sensible planning.