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Stick Families are a Terrible Idea

Can’t believe they’re still popular, like…. still?! 

Even their location is dumb – why put them directly in the rearview mirror’s view?

Favourite line:

Stick families broadcast personal information, and are an unnecessary breach of personal security.

I’ve been collecting photos for a year.

Bottom right is mildly amusing.

Surely you’ve seen the “Anti-Stick Family” stickers.

Maybe, but you still have a stick family on your car.

Worst sticker I’ve ever seen:

A good social engineer will use that information,
to get directly into the victim’s mind and heart.

Example: the attacker Googles the name of the deceased, finds the cause of death.

Then, they “run into” the car’s owner, “yup, I’m just passing through here, trying to reach my donation goal for my charity, it’s to benefit [cause of death].  Oh, that’s a cause close to your heart, and you’ll donate?  Thanks so much.”

Blog tag = Social Engineering

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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

Same Photo but 6 Months Apart

(taken at a desk at BHG – they manage fleets of press cars)

In the fall of 2011, when I was getting press car after car, I decided it was full blog steam ahead, in one direction – I chose cars.

When I returned in May, from living in the States, I was right back to driving a different car every week. I took the June photo above, then tucked it away under, ‘future collage’; waiting for when I felt I could back it up.

As of Today:

– auto team member of one of our largest newspapers
– 3 months of my weekly opinion column, ‘Keri on Driving’
– news articles every week
– first proper, detailed car review done
– hit my goal of  testing $1 million worth of cars ($1,096,300) by end-of-year
– might hold the nation’s record for ‘longest duration with the same press car’ (4 weeks)
– probably produced, single-handlely, more content for Honda Canada than anyone else, this year
– 1 AJAC ‘Test Fest’
– 5 mini-track days
– 1 huge track day, that turned out to be an airport, COMEon

BOOM.

And that’s that. Now I am an official Auto Journalist.

I removed “New” from my bios, the occasion has been documented with this post, now, on to the next.

Titles mean: work harder

Drive more cars, get faster at writing news pieces; have better consistency;  maybe take an engine class; I found my opinion voice, now find my review voice.  Then guys, I think where I can really bring it all together, is: car adventure videos.  That’s what I’m daydreaming of, these past pensive weeks.

Thanks for cheering me on over the years, please keep doing that.