If your keyboard was actually working, you pressed a key. If it was not working, you went to get new keyboard. What is “not thought through” about that?

Except this “routine” is word for word clone. It is more like people retelling the same political joke with only difference being the politician’s name… No one calls it new joke, or “homage”. We call it “yes, this joke was given to Moses on stone tablet” 😊

Well that would require too much work invested into stealing of https://xkcd.com/327/

we are talking about cheap home dsl routers here. i think that extent of the damage here is that someone has to revert to offline porn.

which would be bad for the world if people in the competing nations didn’t have internet access

these people would find out that there is such thing as fm radio. and that lot of their phones is capable of receiving it.

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If you are a troll, well done. If you are really that dellusional, please get help.

Didn’t happen.

do some red circles and arrows help?

Also didn’t happen.

Why are you asking me?

because you are the one who started it. people usually contribute information into public discussion with hope it will be useful to other readers.

I’m not the one accusing others of “nOt rEaDiNg dA tHrEaD bEfOrE u AsKeD a qUeStOn”.

no, you are the one AsKIng rHETOrIcal qUEsTioN 🤣

No one has actually provided an on-topic reply to it yet.

you were pointed to the fact that your questions were already answered and you can easily read these answers. that is as on topic as it can get.

you chose weird hill to die on.

Your “rhetorical question” and objections you raised were already answered in this thread before you raised them.

You might have found out if you bothered to read the discussion before sharing your opinion.

So what you’re saying is (…)

no, that is not what i am saying.

That doesn’t sound quite right to me

it would help if you stopped putting fabricated nonsense into other people’s mouths. then you wouldn’t have to wonder whether that nonsense “sounds quite right.”

And (by how I understood it) the point of the I1I1 plate was that it wasn’t easily discernible and the camera couldn’t identify it correctly

the point was it was hard to read and remember for a human. hence why the witness in the comic gives only vague description, which is what the owner of the sneaky plate hoped for, but due to its uniqueness the police knew and the plate failed to achieve its intended purpose on a spectacular level. there was no automation involved at all.

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ok, but while that is wild in itself, i assume that is under the assumption of them actually being your tickets. here we talk about situation where they demand the hero pays someone else’s tickets just because of the fault of their system.

identify - maybe, prove it at the court of law - somewhere between hard and impossible.

say you have found all these “not that many” cars, and now what? you would have (may slightly depend on the local law) prove who is the driver. that may be impossible, even if you have photo of the driver and photo of the suspected owner and you “think” they match.

the car also doesn’t have to be local, whatever your threshold for what local is is.

All you’re doing is showing something in public which is perfectly legal.

no, it is not, showing something in public is often not legal, it - as is often the case - depend on the context.

It doesn’t damage the camera.

it damages the database.

then that’s on them if something bad happens. You have no control over what happens inside of their computer.

no, that is on you, because you made that clearly intentionally malicious input. it is the same as if you had used the keyboard, the input method is really not important.

do you think that if you successfully hack a bank and steal some money you will get away with the defense of “all i did was send your computer some input, sending input to computers is perfectly legal and i really don’t have any control over what is going inside it”?

that is 5 year’s old idea of how law works.

not working in two different browsers, should it?

because this is about plates and not children.

but this isn’t about plates, it is about sql injection.

but everyone would know whose fault is it the second time it happens because of how weird the plate is.

this is obviously not official plate that would be registered to his name, so they would have no idea unless they caught him red-handed.

but there’s no need to gatekeep.

well, yes, i could have phrased that differently

Highly unlikely.