road toll transponder hacked

[Stefan Kelm]

>> 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.

Cheers,

	Stefan.

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