“You should assume people will mess with them,” security researcher Sam Curry told Wired.
With 65,000 plates already sold, this technology is poised to become increasingly common on American roads.
This vulnerability could have far-reaching consequences for traffic enforcement and surveillance systems that rely on license plate identification.
The implications of this vulnerability extend beyond simple evasion.
Consequently, the existing digital license plates are likely to remain susceptible to manipulation for the foreseeable future.
Rodriguez’s method involved a sophisticated fault-injection process.
He physically connected wires to the plate’s internal chip and carefully monitored its voltage.
However, Rodriguez then used the gathered information to create a streamlined jailbreaking tool.
Rodriguez said he wasn’t planning on releasing the tool.
This isn’t the first time Reviver’s systems have been scrutinized.
Unlike Rodriguez’s hardware-based approach, these issues were quickly patched by Reviver.
