the first time I saw that, it was on a BMW M5. Seeing it from far away I thought "WTF did some German tourist container his car to Taiwan for the holiday?" but on closer look it was just a Taiwanese plate with that

I have a feeling that your guess might be correct

From a Taiwanese perspective, that would feel pretty cool

kek I can give you my old German plate next time I come, it's the coolest plate of Germany and I even had to pay to get it

WT - F - 1337

Ahahaha

That's a unique plate if I've ever seen one

Can you get custom plates in Taiwan?

Can't say I know, but I don't think I've seen one.

I googled your question

according to a taiwanese forum, it seems like it's just for looks

I Googled for hours and didn't find anything

https://forum.u-car.com.tw/thread/49063

nice to know

thank you

I like how this is allowed

altering your car plate is illegal in Europe

I dunno if it's allowed. You can't vandalize your plate or render it unreadable, but something like this is just, like

well, it doesn't seem to hinder identification

so who really cares

now, if it interferes with automatic plate recognition

that might be a different story

they were trying automatic plate recognition by traffic cameras in Switzerland, so I put a sticker with `'; DROP TABLE ` next to the plate and got a fine

ha

with how un-security-conscious things in taiwan are, they probably just don't check the input

Oh come on, Taiwan is way more digitalized than all of Europe together

even your temples have fancy dot matrix displays

yeah but like

that just isn't something that would really come up

at the same time i'm just talking out of my ass, if they have a standard operating procedure they follow then it'd be taken care of, but it's just my impression of how we approach things

what do you mean?

just not worrying too much about that aspect of security

physical security is usually decent, lots of cameras everywhere

yes and women waiting zones in far away train stations

I liked that

but things like software i dunno, i never hear that discussed

businesses still use XP, run pirated software and unsigned code

USB sticks just picked up and used and plugged in everywhere

only one thing security wise made me think, the citibank online banking of my gf only works with Windows and internet explorer

they block you out of every other os / browser

probably just-in-case something they designed 15 years ago didn't work properly on another browser