Not everything needs to be digital and “smart.” License plates, for example: > Josep Rodriguez, a researcher at security firm IOActive, has revealed a > technique to “jailbreak” digital license plates sold by Reviver, the leading > vendor of those plates in the US with 65,000 plates already sold. By removing > a sticker on the back of the plate and attaching a cable to its internal > connectors, he’s able to rewrite a Reviver plate’s firmware in a matter of > minutes. Then, with that custom firmware installed, the jailbroken license > plate can receive commands via Bluetooth from a smartphone app to instantly > change its display to show any characters or image...