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Snorton74

Snorton74

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Hey Jerry, I saw you starting your bike on YouTube, and thought nice bike. Then I thought, people should cover their license plate #'s, just to be safe. I know California changed their laws years ago to protect people from stalkers, but better safe than sorry. Just a thought. BTW, IMHO, your bike looks even better with the Roadster tank.
 
I think covering a license plate is futile, anyone can take a picture and post it on the internet with the plate in full view, it doesn't have to be the owner. Add to this the fact that it is now impossible for even the police to just run numbers without proper justification since all searches are logged.

Jean
 
I've heard of bikes being stolen locally after just being offered for sale on Craigslist. Co-inky-dink??? They figured someone new someone at the DMV. I just figure there is no reason to advertise you plates.
 
Snorton74 said:
I've heard of bikes being stolen locally after just being offered for sale on Craigslist. Co-inky-dink??? They figured someone new someone at the DMV. I just figure there is no reason to advertise you plates.
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Using a smart phone,( with GPS enabled on the camera), to take photos puts location code with the photo that can be used by people to find where the photo was taken. Or so I've heard. http://www.superduke.net/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=19763
 
Snorton74 said:
I've heard of bikes being stolen locally after just being offered for sale on Craigslist. Co-inky-dink??? They figured someone new someone at the DMV. I just figure there is no reason to advertise you plates.
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With a phone number and an address, it makes it a LOT easier than trying to find any info from a license plate doesn't it :?:

Jean
 
Jeandr said:
Snorton74 said:
I've heard of bikes being stolen locally after just being offered for sale on Craigslist. Co-inky-dink??? They figured someone new someone at the DMV. I just figure there is no reason to advertise you plates.
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With a phone number and an address, it makes it a LOT easier than trying to find any info from a license plate doesn't it :?:

Jean
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Sure does :lol:

But so does a cell phone photo of the bike,( in the garage or in front of home), giving the GPS location picture was taken.
 
willh said:
But so does a cell phone photo of the bike,( in the garage or in front of home), giving the GPS location picture was taken.
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One more reason NOT to post crappy cell phone pictures :!:

Jean
 
My friends brother was investigating detective on 3 cases. Two Ducatis and a BMW we're stolen within 2 weeks of each other. What did they have in common? Craigslist, and their license plates in the photo. No one had looked at the bikes yet so how would they have known where they lived? GPS from a cell phone, doubtful. That kind of tech is way too spendy for this level of theft. He said that the local DMV employees were being investigated. According to him a WA state DMV employee had been convicted of the same thing in 2010. Not paranoid, just careful.
 
Snorton74 said:
GPS from a cell phone, doubtful. That kind of tech is way too spendy for this level of theft.
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Nothing spendy about it. Copy the photo info and paste into a program like http://exifdata.com/ ,and out pops shutter speed, exposure, date, time, latitude, and longitude,(whatever metadata was saved when photo was taken). All you need is a computer and internet.
 
interesting! had some awareness of the camera/photo data contained in a jpeg but did not know GPS data could be included, fortunately I have location services turned off on my phone so it is not there
thanks for the link to exifdata.....also was curious about all this and found some more info at http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/ti ... ur-photos/
 
I have Photobucket set to strip GPS info from the photos when I upload from iPhoto.
 
Very interesting.
I do have CCTV all around, 3 dogs, timer on garage door, weapons and most importantly very good insurance and a spare commando in the house. Seriously though amazing info. Now I know what that means about stripping exif data.. It was an option for the accessnorton galleries.

Thanks for posting that!
 
I've given this some thought and one of them was a jar of rotten shell fish left open while away from the bike so ya cap it then ride away for the 'vapors' or have a rig similar foul fluid to spill out if bike moved much like a cord on a spoke pulling a plug to spill on ground or maybe on wheels so not to bad to clean up with soapy water and H2O2 like for skunk stink. One could also rig a squeeze squriter in the seat but one would definitely forget to disarm it some time.

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