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Obscuring the license plate... - DGShannon_imp - 03-25-2015
It is a habit, across the Internet, to obscure a license plate number when posting a picture. Why is this?
Everyday, we drive are cars and bikes in traffic where thousands of people can read our license plate. What is it that everyone is afraid of when they post a picture?
INFO:
http://jalopnik.com/5941797/should-you-bother-obscuring-your-license-plates-in-photos
Reading through a variety of forums, it appears that it is considered a courtesy if you are posting a picture of someone else's vehicle, but that when you are posting a photo of your own, there just isn't any real reason beyond unwarranted paranoia. Being hunted down from plate info in a picture just isn't likely. Far more likely would be one of the thousands of people seeing your plate every day, on the road next to you, who is already following you! If photos scare you, then you must have one heck of a time driving in public.
RE: Obscuring the license plate... - JustPassinThru_imp - 03-25-2015
There are kooks everywhere.
People with too much time; not enough self-control. And while they can look at traffic and just shrug, when you HIGHLIGHT yourself or your vehicle with an Internet photo...it invites people to find a way to run the numbers, see who you are.
Just putting the photo up invites attention that parking in the Wal-Mart lot never would.
Because people...are crazy.
RE: Obscuring the license plate... - nhawk7504_imp - 03-25-2015
Yeah maybe it is just that someone would look up your reg somehow and try to steal your bike. But how would they look it up without hacking into the RMV? Or maybe they would look for other visual clues in your other photos to see where the bike is. Some people lay their life right out there on line. - And if YOU don't, your KIDS DO!
RE: Obscuring the license plate... - NightRider_imp - 03-25-2015
(03-25-2015, 05:41 AM)DGShannon_imp Wrote: It is a habit, across the Internet, to obscure a license plate number when posting a picture. Why is this?
Everyday, we drive are cars and bikes in traffic where thousands of people can read our license plate. What is it that everyone is afraid of when they post a picture?
INFO:
http://jalopnik.com/5941797/should-you-bother-obscuring-your-license-plates-in-photos
Reading through a variety of forums, it appears that it is considered a courtesy if you are posting a picture of someone else's vehicle, but that when you are posting a photo of your own, there just isn't any real reason beyond unwarranted paranoia. Being hunted down from plate info in a picture just isn't likely. Far more likely would be one of the thousands of people seeing your plate every day, on the road next to you, who is already following you! If photos scare you, then you must have one heck of a time driving in public.
I can find you with your license plate number and I have time to do so if you post it on the internet...guess that answers that!
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(03-25-2015, 05:56 AM)nhawk7504_imp Wrote: Yeah maybe it is just that someone would look up your reg somehow and try to steal your bike. But how would they look it up without hacking into the RMV? Or maybe they would look for other visual clues in your other photos to see where the bike is. Some people lay their life right out there on line. - And if YOU don't, your KIDS DO!
Or maybe you can pay one of those internet background check companies 19.95 and they will give you the address for any license plate number you care to enter for thirty days.