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A stolen motorcycle database/registry

2wzilla

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Hello there fellow riders.

One of this cold nights I was sitting in my basement and browsing GTAM on my Mac when it hit me. Why not make a public Database/Registry of Stolen motorcycles and also allow users to add their Motorcycles to the registry even if they were not Stolen, just as a precaution. I know someone attempted to do this already on here, and the project seemed to have died for whatever reason, but I'm actually pretty serious in getting this thing up and running. But before I go full 12 cups of coffee into my IDE, I want a count of hands from fellow riders, too see if the project is viable enough to put my time into.

So yep. In short you would submit your Motorcycle's VIN number into my Database along with few other pieces of information such as year, make, model, color, mileage, last seen, last seen location, image, your contact info (phone/email) and some details on the bike (a description of the bike, the mods it has, the stickers it has, you know this kind of deal). And that would be it. From there own you would Submit the New Report and from my end I would have it Shared on my projects Facebook and Twitter pages, and you can also share it on your own Social Media links.

This is a bit of a two way deal, as anyone buying a new bike would do so much good if they just run a quick lookup via my project, and who knows maybe they would come across a fellow riders stolen bike. Also for the tinfoil portion of members the project would run under a SSL and all data would be encrypted with AES like cipher (TWOFISH or BLOWFISH or SERPENT) in CBC mode.
 
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A bunch already exist.

http://app.cpic-cipc.ca/English/searchformvin.cfm
http://stolencar.com/
http://www.stolenmotorcycleregistry.com/index.php

I think the challenge is validating theft/ownership claims. If the data isn't reliable, no one will ever use it.

I think the only viable resource here is the CPIC website. Well my solution for validation was to limit amount of claims a designated IP can make in 24 hours timeframe. Not to mention I would ask for Police Report ID/# as well as Copy of Ownership and Drivers Licence. This would be tricky portion as it would require trust, from my end the data would be verified and the database entry would be approved or denied. And the files would be wiped.
 
The CPIC lookup website already posted fulfills this requirement. If the bike is legitimately reported to the police as stolen, the VIN will cause a hit there in the future.
 

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