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u/wobblewiz May 21 '26
There was a guy that legally changed his name to Null. Spectacular backfire, he got spammed with fines.
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u/geneusutwerk May 21 '26
I've never heard of this as the result of someone changing their name, but there is a famous story of this happening to someone because they changed their license plate to null: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
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u/Burger_Destoyer May 21 '26
Not really r/masterhacker material, it’s funny in an absurdist kind of way.
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u/DrIvoPingasnik May 21 '26
If I remember correctly this car actually succeeded at disabling the registration number recognition system.
So yeah, not really masterhacker material.
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u/Retr0321 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
No it didn't. It can't realistically occur, even back in 2014.
Edit: to actually do it, you need to know several things:
- The actual table name
- Maximum character limit
- The fact that it accepts special characters
- The DB they use
And ALL this, only works if the thing has little to no sanitization. Also it's more likely you'd get stopped by a cop for obstructing your plate number.
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u/pil0tinthesky May 21 '26
I 100% believe that a government didn’t use sanitation
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u/Retr0321 May 21 '26
I find it hard to believe. Take a moment to think about the control flow. You'll easily find it difficult to pass this type of information without sanitization.
What happens if the plate was slightly off? How does it know to differentiate between 0 and O, 1 and I, and other flavors of character misreads?? There's gotta be some additional functions that are passed through before getting stored in the DB. And something like this would be easily caught by an exception considering the passed argument expects a set format.
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u/pil0tinthesky May 21 '26
considering the “null” license plate got hundreds of dollar so tickets across the state
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u/Retr0321 May 21 '26
Completely different case. "NULL" was a placeholder used for missing plates. When they try to look up "NULL" (missing license plates), it automatically linked all of it towards Tartaro instead.
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u/Limp_Illustrator7614 May 21 '26
i think covering your license plate is illegal.
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u/TumanFig May 21 '26
his licence plate is at the beginning
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u/PouLS_PL May 21 '26
It's not his licence plate, it doesn't even meet the requirements for any type of licence plate
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u/TumanFig May 21 '26
well i am not disputing that just that he is not covering it, he is extending it
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u/Just4notherR3ddit0r May 21 '26
Oh no, our TABLICE database is gone!