Hacker Gets $12,000 In Parking Tickets After ‘NULL’ License Plate Trick Backfires

Forbes – A security researcher by the name of Droogie decided to mess with the Automatic License Plate Reader systems that issue traffic fines, securing the vanity plate “NULL,” part for fun and part in the hope that this spoofed the system into returning errors whenever his plate was seen. Instead he received more than $12,000 in fines—clearly his plate became a dumping ground for erroneous data records.