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Re: road toll transponder hacked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Thu Aug 28 13:15:56 2008

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:55:52 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Stefan Kelm <stefan.kelm@secorvo.de>,
	Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <48B6CC42.6090602@secorvo.de>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:03:14PM +0200, Stefan Kelm wrote:

> We've been helping the German "Toll Collect" system (as
> discussed in this thread as well) setting up and implementing
> their data privacy concept. This concept requires Toll Collect
> to delete almost any data after a certain (quite short, actually)

They (not Toll Collect, though) do a realtime query against a 
reasonably long list of license plates in some German states, I recall reading.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Hessische-Polizei-hat-seit-Maerz-eine-Million-Kfz-Kennzeichen-gescannt--/meldung/99197

> amount of time. Even with disk prices falling they save lots
> and lots of money (even compared to what we charged them for
> telling them... :-) ).

Given where things are headed in Germany, I guarantee you Toll Collect
will be required by law to do data retention for at least a year or
two in less than 5 years.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Debatte-um-Zugriff-auf-LKW-Mautdaten-fuer-Fahndungen-geht-weiter--/meldung/76321

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