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Background: from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ)

Floxk AI is a startup that apparently runs highly suspicious police data collection services. As a fun bonus, it sells this data to private bidders and retains no liability for any mess-ups.

Apparently, it uses a Bluetooth system to relay some of this information. And seems to generally have awful security...

Any thoughts? Or further projects on this?

for such a well-documented repo, the complete lack of sample outputs is surprising.

I don't want to run the code, just show me some perturbed plates!

Highly illegal in most likely all states.Every state has laws against obstruction of license plates.
Post COVID, where the streets are full of terrible/reckless/dangerous/uninsured drivers with missing or fake (ghost) tags, I have a hard time opposing license plate enforcement.
I've been wondering for a long time about adding a layer of UV reflective material to a license plate (maybe even a spray?), built specifically to either alter the image so a camera sees different numbers/letters, or to block it altogether. With this it wouldn't be obstructing the licence plate at all for human eyes, so it's feasible that you could easily get away with it.