RFID embedded number plates

http://www.e-plate.com/

Combined with ANPR and the cumpulsory blackbox GPS floated last week, it'll
provide a handy cross reference for the TrafPol to check whether your GPS has
been disbled/tampered with. Prediction: The e-plate will become an MOT
requirement within 6 years.

Big Brother is definitely out to watch you...

 

This question may well expose or confirm me as an electronic numpty, but:

What is the prospect of these various Big Brother adornments being fried or
neutralised - accidentally, of course; never deliberately - by a focused
pulse of intense radio energy? Presumably the fact that they are on
transmit, not receive, makes that difficult. Still, I have in mind a sort
of Fred Faraday's Drive-Through Chip Fryer, where your RFID and what-not
could be zapped. "I have no idea how that could have happened, officer, but
I did drive past GCHQ the other day. Perhaps that explains it." Enough
determined civil disobedience could consign the chips to the swing-bin of
history.

 

It won't work. At some point they'll find a way to "prove" that terrorists
could be stopped by it, and the 90% of the fucking sheep in this country
will just stand by and let it happen.

 

The reason that it has become much harder to obtain a legal plate by
legal means recently is the presence of an embedded chip - so my local
friendly plate retailer informed me. The plate making machines are
owned by one of three firms, I believe, which lease the machines to
retailers. The owners of the machines are licensed by DVLA, who
invigilate them.

Therefore the machine owners invigilate the retailers - every plate
has a unique ID assigned to it and is recorded within the machine.
All paperwork produced in order to obtain a plate is copied and must
be held by the retailer pending a visit from an inspector, who will
expect to be able to justify every plate issued with the supporting
paperwork.

He's already watching, Rog.

 

Well, IF the Tories elect David Davies as their leader - who seems a deeply
underwhelming character to me, but is passionately anti ID-cards so by
definition must be a good bloke - there are enough antis on the Bliarite
back-benches to combine with the Tories and the [already anti] LibDems to
dump the idea. Common-sense and liberalism might just make a comeback, and
head off some of the more authoritarian schemes being dreamed up. The
terrorist threat business is now widely discredited and derided. I agree
with you about the sheep, but like to believe that even the sheep are sick
and tired of the creeping social control.

 

http://www.hillsnumberplates.com/dvla_cons.html

Electronic tagging of number plates offers possibility of making a limited
improvement in advance of a full system of electronic vehicle
identification system (EVI) and DVLA concluded that, “it is evident that
technological solutions exist, and could be put into operation in the not
too distant future”. As part of the Hiltek plate development we have
developed e-plate, which is, a fully compliant number plates containing an
active RFID tag and it is available for demonstration and installation
now.

Aye, and he's rapidly developing the eye of Sauron to do it more
effectively. The public will be allowed to 'win' and yellow roadside
Gatso's will disappear - to be replaced by the
GPS-RFID-ANPR-AutoSummons...

 

Véritable Rosbif wrote

Extremely good but it would need to be either *very* focussed or *very*
intense.

 

Have I been whooshed?

I've recently had a car plate made up and it looked chipless to me. I
watched them make it up (Halfrauds) and the spotty yoof just shoved the
numbers onto it and pushed it through a roller, all looked very Heath
Robinson, certainly not any kind of machine that would be leased?

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Véritable Rosbif wrote

I doubt you are right. The various Nationalists and other Independents
might bugger up your sums.

I doubt you are right. The various Nationalists and other Independents
might bugger up your sums.

Only by those who feel it is being misused and they are hardly even a
significant minority let alone in a position to do anything about it
apart from keep crying "foul."

I don't think the sheep understand enough for that to be the case.

 

.... thus frying the rest of the vehicle's electronics. Ah. Time to call on
our old friend Mr Grey-Area, to find a way of dealing with Big Brother
without causing the Mother and Father of a mess of the ignition, or being
identifiably and criminally Luddite.

 

The chip and a ten year battery are hidden inside the plate. It looks
completely normal, but it's chucking out a signal saying:

"Hi, I'm HIL78326182764"

Which the roadside reader picks up and broadcasts back to base where the
computer cross references it in the database and comes up with:

"HIL78326182764 is assigned to vehicle registration mark GOT 1M"

 

I suspect you are right.

I suspect you are right

I suspect you are right.

I suspect you are right.

S'a bugger, innit!

 

They are looking at ways of causing the RFID tag to be disabled if the
plates are removed from the vehicle. It's easy to fry an rfid chip, just
remove the front door off a microwave oven, jam the safety interlock shut
and turn it on next to the numberplate. Might be an idea to wrap lead foil
round your ecu first though

It won't help though, because they've thought of this, and if you are
clocked passing a roadside sensor without emitting a legit rfid signal
ANPR will have your plate number and there'll be a knock at the door
later. Plus any dodgy false plates will immediately be circulated to all
TrafPol cars and their onboard ANPR will bleep an alert when it spots the
vehicle. If someone makes forgeries of your plate, you'll need your GPS
logs to put you in the clear...

 

Véritable Rosbif wrote

Innit eh?

The trick, as ever, appears to be to get unreasoned kneejerk reaction to
see your somewhat more moderate and sensible view. There may be lessons
to be learnt from the merkins on this one as it goes.

They are just about to see the light and join the rest of us in saving
the planet from gaseous greenhouses, the tricks that work on persuading
them against the express wishes of their lords and masters should be
noted for future reference.

 

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Do you somehow think this lot ^^^ is funny? I've never understood why
people bother with this sort of crap.

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tallbloke scribbled:

Well the solutions obvious then. Remove number plate, re-attach. Dead
rfid chip.

Snap half the plate off. False plate.

The police will prolly have mobile rfid readers and stop any vehicle
that it doesn't pick up on though.

Anyway, can you imagine how long it'll take to retro fit new number
plates to all the vehicles in the UK?

Just how many businesses will move to be closer to cheap(er) workforces?
And how many will be forced to increase salaries to attract/keep
employees?

God, Blur & Co are thick.

 

frag wrote

12 months.

You do it at tax renewal time, no new style plate receipt, no tax.
Simple as that.

God might be but the rest ain't and you fucking forget it.

 

steve auvache wrote

^
don't


Oops.

 

I do not.

Nor me. I prefer minimal attributions.

 

Err, when did this get introduced then? I had a plate made up recently at
the local dealers (other one had fallen off... oops! Helpfully pointed out
by Mr Copper)and it was knocked up in like 10 minutes, and cost the grand
total of a tenner...

Cant really see how it can have something inside it when its a clear piece
of acrylic with numbers and stuff stuck onto the back.. surely you could see
said battery?... unless its microscopic!