{"id":8307,"date":"2004-12-07T05:57:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T03:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/07\/fooling-traffic-cameras\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:55:03","slug":"fooling-traffic-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/07\/fooling-traffic-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Fooling traffic cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>With Cyprus police promising to install traffic cameras in the near future, few people I know started to worry that antiradars won&#8217;t be working anymore and that speeding will have to become a part of history.  I always knew that there will be someone smart who will find a solution to the traffic camera problem.  At the end of the day, this is just another problem, and there are way too many people interested in that solution.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/bbahostcity.com\">this website<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000033022775\/\">this post<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a>).  It advertises a product called Photo-Blocker, which is nothing more than a spray.  You buy a can, spray some on your number plates, and they will be indistinguishable  on the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it myself and I have no way of checking if this one is true.  But the idea sounds interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>With Cyprus police promising to install traffic cameras in the near future, few people I know started to worry that antiradars won&#8217;t be working anymore and that speeding will have to become a part of history. I always knew that there will be someone smart who will find a solution to the traffic camera problem. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/07\/fooling-traffic-cameras\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fooling traffic cameras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[27],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-driving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21819,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/15\/welcome-to-cyprus-traffic-violations\/","url_meta":{"origin":8307,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to Cyprus traffic violations","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: OVER 2,000 traffic violations were recorded last weekend by two fixed speed cameras installed on Grivas Dhigenis avenue in Nicosia. 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