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mikebailey t1_jaepz4y wrote

Reply to comment by theAmericanStranger in Police Seek Man Who Allegedly Cut Cable Lines on Super Bowl Sunday by Kindaalwayshungry

There’s so many variables to this. Is the car stolen? Do they have him entering a car (I don’t see it in the article/video but I only saw most of the video? How many are they able to run? Having 1 of 7 digits still leaves 2^6, etc. If it was this easy there’d be way less crime.

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theAmericanStranger t1_jaeqvyd wrote

1 of 7 characters when you have the make, color, and the year, or years range, is way less than 2^(6). To my untrained eye, this totally looks like car he uses a lot, not a stolen one, for example he knows where the tools are stashed, looks like he's familiar with driving it, etc.

Anyway, I might be totally wrong, not going to die on this hill. But fuck him for real! There's something terribly selfish the way he goes about to make thousands of other people miserable.

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mikebailey t1_jaevgth wrote

>1 of 7 characters when you have the make, color, and the year, or years range, is way less than 2^6.

That depends on how searches are structured/partitioned in the databases. The "scan space" may still be 2^6. I make a habit of assuming the worst possible architecture when we talk about government.

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theAmericanStranger t1_jaew6j6 wrote

"sir, this is Philly"

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srsly, my math is horribly off, as it's not 2^6, but (assuming any letter or digit is valid and can be at any position) 36^6 !

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