California DMV Rejects 1NFOS3C Vanity Plate Because Of 'Sexual Connotation'

from the tsk-tsk-david dept

David Ulevitch, the founder of OpenDNS (now owned by Cisco), apparently discovered that the dirty minds at the California DMV see "lust" in information security. How else to explain that the DMV rejected his request for a vanity plate for the license plate "1NFOS3C": As you can see, the DMV rejected it because it "has a sexual connotation, or is a term of lust or depravity. Now, that probably has you shaking your head. What possible "sexual connotation" is there in "information security" shortened and with a few numbers instead of letters? One response to David's tweet suggests the DMV read it as "in fo' sex" which brings an entirely new way of thinking about information security... Though as another response shows, the way to get bad words by the California DMV is apparently to use a mirror in designing your vanity plate:

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