"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> It would be relatively easy to catch someone >>> doing this - just cross-correlate with other >>> information (address of home and work) and >>> then photograph the car at the on-ramp. >> >> Am I missing something? >> >> It seems to me that EZ Pass spoofing should become as popular as >> cellphone cloning, until they change the protocol. > > I doubt it. > > All the toll lanes that accept EZ Pass that I've seen are equipped > with cameras. These cameras are used to identify toll evaders > already. You point out that doing this would require manual work, but > in fact several systems (including the one used for handling traffic > fees in central London) have already demonstrated that automated > license plate reading systems are feasible. Even without automated > plate reading, storing photographs is also now astoundingly cheap > given how cheap storage has gotten, so if anyone ever complained about > incorrect charges on their bill, finding the plates of the cars that > went through during the disputed toll collections would be trivial.
Precisely. Moreover, you can presumably use fairly unsophisticated data mining/fraud detection techniques to detect when a unit has been cloned and then go back to the photographs to find and punish the offenders. -Ekr --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
