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Lum
Aug 13, 2003

(Note: This is written from a UK perspective)

I'm going to go with no.

Firstly the most common types of speed camera out there, Gatso and Truvelo, take photographs onto film which is then manually viewed by a police officer to determine if an offence has taken place and if so the vehicle details are keyed in manually. You'd have to get a particularly dumb officer to actually enter all that stuff by hand.

Even for the cameras that do read number plates (digital Gatso, SPECS, ANPR etc.), there is one big flaw in the SQL injection plan, which is that a licence plate is only 7 characters long (I believe this can go up to 9 in the USA?) so you wouldn't be able to get any meaningful SQL command in there.

What would happen is one of two things.
  1. Eventually you'll get seen by a copper and pulled over for driving with obscured number plates, which will likely get you a small fine and told to fix it.
  2. As #1 but you'll get a copper who knows what SQL injection is and instead of being told to fix it you'll get charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice which carries much higher penalties including a possible prison sentence.
You'd be much better off just buying one of the many camera detecting devices out there, the GPS+database based ones work very well, or learn to be particularly observant while speeding! (which is probably good advice anyway)

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Lum
Aug 13, 2003

adorai posted:

as a consolation prize, it will probably make your plate immune to being recognized.

Yes, but as I mentioned before, it'll get you in trouble for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

You'd be better off sticking a sign over your plate saying "I am a fuckwit" (insert your preferred slur here) and then denying all knowledge of it being there and removing it as soon as you get pulled over. Not your fault you never noticed someone vandalising your car right?

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Aug 13, 2003

wdarkk posted:

Unless they own the same car in the same color it'll still be easy.

<Insert BMW joke>

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