Guy got the license plate “NULL” and it was a total disaster

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22 points·rchaudhary··9 comments

> he hoped his NULL license plates would make it impossible, or at least difficult, for cops to give him a ticket, since they wouldn’t be able to enter the ticket into their system

This might be bad reporting, but... Did he honestly expect absolutely no difference between NULL and "NULL"? That the system uses "NULL" for unrecognized plates is unfortunate and bad programming, of course, but still...

Null and Root are actual surnames (“family names” in some parts of USA). These folks, especially Null family members, make it to the news from time to time.

More interesting was the fellow who registered “NO PLATE” in California

Seems similar to Ireland's most prolific dangerous driver - Prawo Jazdy.

Prawo Jazdy of course being the Polish term for driving license that the Irish police were mistaking for a name.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904

Reminds me of "Little Bobby Tables".

https://xkcd.com/327/

Wouldn't he have his own tickets flushes away with the hundreds of erroneous ones? Seems to have worked albeit with some extra labor.

Wonder if it's possible to do some sort of injection attack using this method.. guess there isn't enough characters

Speaking at the Def Con hacking conference, Droogie explained how he hoped his NULL license plates would make it impossible, or at least difficult, for cops to give him a ticket, since they wouldn’t be able to enter the ticket into their system.

That was dumb. He's broadcasting malicious intent. Better to just say it's a novelty and related to his work (which seems true).

Obligatory XKCD [0] :)

[0] https://xkcd.com/1105/

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