WIRED | IOActive’s Josep Pi Rodriguez, Principal Security Consultant, was recently featured in a Wired article, ‘Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets,’ where he discussed a technique that he discovered to “”jailbreak” digital license plates sold by Reviver, the leading vendor of those plates in the US with 65,000 plates already sold.”
“That susceptibility to jailbreaking, Rodriguez points out, could let drivers with the license plates evade any system that depends on license plate numbers for enforcement or surveillance, from tolls to speeding and parking tickets to automatic license plate readers that police use to track criminal suspects. “You can put whatever you want on the screen, which users are not supposed to be able to do,” says Rodriguez. “Imagine you are going through a speed camera or if you are a criminal and you don’t want to get caught.””