I fully agree with the good demographic for thief's. That said, I would then worry more about riding in and around your town. I would worry about parking at Bike Night, the HD Dealer and the store....Those theifs are local, not spread across the world...

Bike night is a great place to get plate numbers, those people are most likely local so much easier for them to also rob your home.

EXACTLY. Local thief's I would worry about more than people on the internet 1000's of miles away.

 

 

LOL -- 2 small pieces of electrical tape and your plate number gets me FREE ez-pass.

 

Since nobody has answered your question, I will try. In the old days, we were told not to tell someone else our SN because it could be used to make a fake title to defraud you of your bike. I doubt it is really an issue any more than the plate number. That said, I think I would still black out the part of my SN that identifies the individual bike number off the line.

 

Your personal information is sold, resold, and distributed on a daily basis. It's in the EUA you click "agree" on just about everything. Even the device you used to browse this website.

Your SSN, credit card, and DL# are a string of digits, they're compromised daily. It's safe to assume your identity has been stolen and will be stolen again through no action of your own. At least until we stop using base 10 numbers to establish identity and include a biometric or two. Identity should be based on something you have, something you know, and something you are.

Personally, I'd be way more concerned about what people post on social media. Social Engineering is way easier, and much more effective nowadays. Shoot, take the "show me your garage" thread for example. It's not much work to find a social media profile for the owner, figure out where they live, look at the garage to determine an attack vector, then break in and steal your crap.