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    Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money

    Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations

    Parking Meters From Hell

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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    08/01/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    But But, I Love Unsecure Women, Because They Are So CareFree, Right Maxi?
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    07/31/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    It's easier to just knock over the meter maid's 3-wheeled golf cart.
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    Image of Greg Lloyd Greg Lloyd
    07/31/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    Ah - such a lovely introduction to the "Internet of things". Can't wait until every refrigerator and alarm clock becomes hackable.
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    07/31/09

    @Greg Lloyd: What'choo mean? My frigidaire runs on linux.
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    Image of Vroomtrap Vroomtrap
    07/31/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    I don't think California has enough money to pay someone to even look into this.
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    Image of DonLaFontaine DonLaFontaine
    07/31/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    Insecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money, Keep Looking At Selves in Mirror from Different Angles, Asking Whether All Those Coins in Them Make Them Look Fat.
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    07/31/09

    @DonLaFontaine: Why Did You Capitalize almost Every Word in That Sentence?
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    Image of DonLaFontaine DonLaFontaine
    07/31/09

    @linky182: I was expounding on the original title of the post, which was in initial caps.
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    Image of mikereynaga mikereynaga
    07/31/09

    In reply to Unsecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
    shouldnt it be unsecured, i dont think the meters are insecure about anything. well maybe the fat ones
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    02/26/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    Thank Oklahoma. The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City.
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    Image of metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
    02/26/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    at some parts of the city closest to me they've got ticket machines near the end of the block that dispense a receipt with the time of expiration and you lay that on your dashboard. It seems to work nicely.
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    Image of Principia Principia
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    Actually, in the District of Columbia, broken parking meters are such an endemic problem that every meter has an individual identification number. You call in the broken meter, they give you an ID number, and if you get given a ticket, you fill out an explanation with the case number from the broken meter hotline, and voila, the ticket goes away. In theory.


    With self-correcting meters (one of which I've been bitten by recently), they'll come back months down the line, tell you they checked the meter at some unspecified point significantly later than when you reported it broken, and that *at the time they checked it*, it was functioning properly. At which point you have the choice of paying the ticket, or going through the DC courts system to appeal the ticket, with that in and of itself costing you more in your time than the cost of the ticket was worth, assuming you were to even win the case to begin with.


    I'm waiting for some enterprising lawyers to start filing class action lawsuits. Between this nonsense and their oversensitive red-light cameras (which have never caused me a problem, but I've seen snap pics on people going through lights when they weren't red), DC is just asking for trouble.

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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    02/26/09

    @Principia: Kinda like this traffic camera?


    And, in case the site gets pissed for hotlinking, [www.thedailywtf.com] . Some of you IT and software development folks will get a kick out of it.

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    Image of rextuhfer rextuhfer
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    i never really understood the pay to park thing.....
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/25/09

    @rexdot: Well it's kind of like renting an open air apartment for your car..
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    Image of Epoch Epoch
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    i read the title very fast and wrong.

    i thought the article was something about people faking their deaths to get out of paying parking tickets.
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    Image of AKAuser AKAuser
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    I didn't know Microsoft made parking meters.


    Flame ON.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/25/09

    @AKAuser: They tried to get Apple to make it. Once they found out however that the meters could only be used with a proprietary form of currency which has to be purchased from Apple separately that put an end to it...
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Zing!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    Will it still accept money? If you CANT put money in, I dont see how the parker would be liable, especially if "broken" meters are the norm and are expected (which it sounds like from the figures).
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    Image of MikeSWelch MikeSWelch
    02/25/09

    In reply to Parking Meters Fake Their Own Deaths to Slap Motorists with Parking Violations
    Isn't it illegal to park at a broken parking meter?
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    02/25/09

    @MikeSWelch: What if the meter breaks while you are parked there?
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    02/25/09

    @ceilingFANBOY:

    Sucks to be you. Seriously though, the parking enforcement people aren't retarded, they'll notice your car was there earlier.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    02/25/09

    @TheCrudMan: You're assuming that

    A) they have driven by previously


    and


    B) they memorized the amount of time on every meter and what time they checked it so that they know that your time didn't just run out

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    02/25/09

    @MikeSWelch: I don't know where these other people live, but in NYC it is not illegal to park at a broken meter. You just have to obey the rest of the rules of the meter.


    So if it's $0.25 per 10 minutes with a max of one hour, you don't have to pay the $1.50, but you (technically) have to leave when the hour is up.


    Of course here we're moving more and more toward the temporary parking pass machine model, where you put the little receipt in your window. And then you have an obligation to make sure that none of the machines on the block (2 to 4 usually) work before not paying.

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    Image of holographicProfessorMoriarty holographicProfessorMoriarty
    02/26/09

    @ceilingFANBOY:


    They don't need to memorize anything... they use chalk on your tires to tell if your car has been there awhile.

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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    02/26/09

    @MikeSWelch: Do I smell a "lifehack"? Take a picture with your phone of a dysfunctional meter, or a paid meter, along with the time and what-not. Anyone tried it?
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    Image of Dabamash Dabamash
    02/26/09

    @MikeSWelch: Wow, I forgot that you guys had such a flawed system. In the UK there is a single machine (sometimes 2 or 3) for whole area of parking, all you do is pay for the amount of time you want and it gives you a reciept to stick in your car window, so it's obvious to everyone if you have paid or not.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    02/26/09

    @dOk: But unless they chalk the time that you were parked there and the amount of time that you had left on your meter when you parked there they would not know if you actually ran out of time on your meter or if the meter broke, fixed itself, and set itself to zero.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    02/26/09

    @Dabamash: We have that, too. They are just not everywhere yet.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/09/09

    In reply to Parking Meters From Hell
    It uses cell tech, right? Looks like a good use for a cellphone jammer.
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