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Re: road toll transponder hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Aug 28 12:29:56 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:58:24 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: stefan.kelm@secorvo.de
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <48B6CA8D.5030101@secorvo.de>
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:55:57 +0200
Stefan Kelm <stefan.kelm@secorvo.de> wrote:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect is in operation in entire
> >> Germany. It does OCR on all license plates (also used for police
> >> purposes in realtime, despite initial vigorous denial) but
> >> currently is only used for truck toll.
> >>
> > How well does that actually work? There were many articles in RISKS
> > Digest about problems with the early deployment.
>
> That's true wrt to early deployment. Given that the Toll Collect
> system has been up and running since January 2005 it (technically)
> runs surprisingly well. They have improved tremendously and are
> likely to sell their technology to other european countries.
>
I confess that from a privacy perspective, I'd prefer if it didn't work
that well...
Thanks.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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