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.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
“Oh, this guy again. I have all the paper work ready”
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years 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.net 2 years ago
Something like that, yeah. 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.”
skulblaka@startrek.website 2 years ago
xkcd.com/1105/
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
I knew I read it somewhere, it didn’t remember it to be an xkcd comic