• Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      It’s even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It’s almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.

      • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
        5·
        10 months ago

        Oh like so I bet

        if license plate person thinks they have 1 on they plate {
  do check to see if it’s \
    actually == i
}
        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks… Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, “Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I’s and 1’s, something’s up.”

    • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
      81·
      10 months ago

      This is why I don’t have a tag on my car. Can’t track my license plate if I don’t have a license plate. It’s foolproof!

      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        This is even dumber than the morons who think any plate that’s days “private” has any hope of passing any kind of check.

        • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          5·
          10 months ago

          If all license plates said “private” or “1ii11i1i” they’d never catch us all

  • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    Pretty sure the database actually treats them as the same character. So not sure if someone can’t have a different arrangement of I and 1 or if they all just get investigated if one of them commits a crime.

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
      9·
      10 months ago

      Nowadays we just call that “smurfing”, and it’s a plague on every online game with a ranking system.

  • ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social
    8·
    10 months ago

    Can’t say too much but god I hate this so much. Used to work a call center and someone had a username that was all 1,l,I s and there was no way to easily identify between those 3 characters. For someone to verify who they were they needed to tell us their username and some other info. So I had to waste nearly 30 fucking minutes dealing with this stupid shit before we could proceed forward and we couldn’t just DC the person.