What’s the deal with hiding license plates in photos? Can someone do something nefarious with the information? I can’t imagine why, all they need to do is take a picture of your car somewhere…
@squirrel You just wait, Jim. One day while you are being probed, you won't be so fast to make fun of my hat!!! Don't say I didn't warn ya!
Dang it, I scrapped all my tin foil hats a few years ago when the scrap price was up. I think I got $2 for the big pile of them I had. Should I be starting a new collection of tin foil hats? With a plate in the picture, anyone (with the knowledge) can find an address of where the car's owner lives, by searching the plate number on line. Without the plate in the picture, they would have to drive down the street to actually see the car someone might have for sale. Originally, the idea was pushed that rare cars, often hidden from the public, could be traced to the owners home and more easily stolen if the plate was printed in a picture. With the technology available to determine the location where a photo was taken these days, I don't know that the picture of the plate makes much difference anymore. I did post a picture of one of my rides on website once and the website automatically blocked out the plate. If I owned a website where rare cars were often listed for sale, I would probably incorporate a way to block the plate numbers of all the cars listed, as a simple precaution.
You can take a picture of the plate at any dragstrip or car show. If selling a car your going to get rid of the plate anyway. They contact you for address. If they show up or not they know what your address is.
Correct! I didn't say I believed it completely. But I don't have any rare, valuable vehicles either (had to add valuable, I have some one off rare junk ). If I wanted to sell a 1 of 5, 1971 Hemi Cuda, I may have a different opinion. If I were running a car for sale listing place, I would sure like to list those rare cars ($$$$$), and I would also want to protect those peoples' home locations as best as possible. Rare cars are seldom sold at the owners home, and are almost never pictured with a state issued license plate intact.
OK, there are ways people can track you if thats what they want to do.........but consider this When people attend large car shows, they have their plates on their cars and someone can simply snap a picture of that car and plate. To further compound the problem many of the cars at the event will also have a sticker on the windshield proudly proclaiming who the owner is and maybe some additional info that can be used to locate him and his vehicle. Then there are the "For Sale" signs with all the information needed to find the owner/car. Go to a small rod run....someone could follow you home. If someone wants to steal your car, there is not really any way to prevent them from finding you. I'd put up some simple type of motion sensor where ever the vehicle is stored and purchase a gun to disuade any future visits. Amazon sells a "driveway alarm" for about $75. Really simple install. It has a solar charged sensor that you just mount on a tree and point it toward the sun and the driveway. Take the other part which is a chime and plug it in in your house. Anyone going up your driveway and it will notify you. Thats all there is to it. You can get it with more than one sensor for multiple locations. Put one over your garage door or actually inside your shop if you can get sunshine to it. I used one to get rid of a groundhog that wanted to live under my porch. He wouldn't go into the cage like his two siblings did, so it became a cat and mouse game to know when he came out from under the porch. I'd already spent about a month trying to catch him......So I Set a sensor near the place he usually came out...........game over.
I find it amusing when someone posts a for sale ad for a vehicle, they put some effort into covering the license plate with their hand or thumb, or a rag, or tape. Then you scroll through the photos and you can see the license plate clear as day from another angle.
Rusty if you wear a tinfoil hat you’ll be protected from conspiracies I could send you one, but they’re easy to make lol Dan Oh and use Heavy Duty tinfoil = more protection
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To many people are Naïve to what people are Able / willing to do with modern technology & Relax Laws from State to State, Here in Va around some where in the 2000's , laws where changed & around 2018 there was a Group /Ring of individuals , I am thinking ,remembering Tow/recovery in Richmond area that where taken pictures randomly on street, parking lots of Vin # then was able to Obtain Va titles , was on Local New & Newspapers
With like 90s and up cars they can just take a picture thru the windshield of the VIN. Don't know how much they can learn about you, but they learn all kinds of stuff about the car. Auto parts guy showed me that.
Kind of remind me of how a few years ago the old guys in our car club really did not want to do car show registration online with credit cards. Still wanted to do paper forms, mailed in with a check. They didn't feel secure putting their CC number on the net. First, I explained, nobody under the age of fifty knows how to write a check or address an envelope. Second, if you send a check I now have your name, address, maybe a phone number, your bank's name, routing number, account number, signature, fingerprints, and if you licked the envelope or stamp, I've got your DNA. So yeah, hide that plate of you think it makes you safer.
It's an old people not with the times thing. It used to be really easy to get owner info from a plate number in most states. A decade ago this all changed because of a federal law. Now you basically need a legitimate business interest to get owner info from a plate number.
Tinfoil hat *or* Aluminum foil hat? & do you use them w/the shiny side out, or the dull side out? Folded neatly or crumpled? Inquiring minds need to know... Please support your answer w/appropriate documentation. . Marcus...
Down Under, we have to use aluminium foil instead of aluminum. The extra "i" is a spelling conspiracy we have with the British government. Don't ask about colour, centre or the pronunciation of "z" . Cheers, Harv
I checked, and there is no apparent swirl. I thought about pulling the bowl apart and flowbenching it to get correct swirl, but then I remembered Christian’s poo-blender story… https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/brouilleur-story-too-funny.1327211/ Cheers, Harv
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