meant to post in the off topic thread. feel free to move sorry

why does so many ppl cover or do something is make their plate hidden in pix of their bike, cars, truck or what ever it is? ts someting i have never understood. guess what, its exposed to the world every day when you drive. i have never heard of a situation that started from somebody getting a tag number off the net... seems like awaste of time to me. am i missing something?

 

I'm not sure, but I imagine it has something to do with forums being somewhat more of an intimate setting and the possibility of someone pissed off knowing exactly where you live. It's surprising how many ways a person can get access to dmv records. I used to work for a car dealership and if we paid 20 bucks we had access to any plate and its accompanying residence it resided at. Not to mention how many LEO/employees can simply pop it in a computer.

 

big city paranoids? guilty?

and hide their location

 

Give me a link where I can look someone's plate up.

I call bullshit.

LEO's, yes, they can.

But if it were that easy, they can track you down after they see your plate at WalMart...

OR

They could just follow you home.

If someone wants to come track me down from California or Vermont or wherever, I'm in San Antonio, Texas....

 

Internet people are a lot creepier than real world people. On this forum, some people share pictures of their garages, houses, cars etc. In the real world out driving around people do not see that riders other material items and may not choose them to target for something such as burglary and theft. People online may see something they like in a picture and use the plate number to research more about a person to scam them or what-not. My plate says 14 HD...........come get some suckas

 

now that i have ur plate number, im coming for your power wheels. ill have it by sun up lol

 

FWIW pictures taken with phones include GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. How's that for telling people where you live?

 

Ive wondered the same thing, if you look at google maps in street view every license plate and facial picture has been distorted

 

If that's so, tell me where this pic was taken.

Taken with my Samsung Galaxy Note II in my garage...
With my toolboxes in the background...

AND my license plate visible.

 

i have saw this proven true, the average person cant pull it up but its out there. i have a computer guru friend that showed me all kinds of things you can find out with pix snd stuff like that. facebook was crazy