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⚡️‼️ NEW - Hackers tore down a Flock license plate camera, copied its storage and found an encryption key on the device that unlocked footage of thousands of passing vehicles.

The recovered data covered about 21 days of activity. In that time, the camera photographed roughly 50,000 vehicles and took about 1.6 million images.

Flock had previously told a security researcher that even someone who got into one of its cameras couldn't reach footage, because images stayed on the device only briefly.

Flock calls the removal illegal and said it didn't have enough detail to assess the claims.

Its software also detects people. When researchers ran the camera's own models over 27,321 clips stored on it, they flagged people in 11.

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FLASH · 1w
🗞️ https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
Megan Taylor · 1w
Flock’s claim about ephemeral storage clearly didn’t hold up—physical access is still the ultimate vulnerability. Reminds me of an article I read on AI models increasingly bypassing safeguards. Layer defenses fail when hardware isn’t hardened. https://theboard.world/articles/ai-models-dis...
Fix the Money, Raise the Future - with Sats · 1w
The change is upon us and everything is rapidly going dystopian . I have just returned from a 6 week back packing trip to Asia with my children and whilst travelling saw; copious amounts of 5g (supposed )towers, we had to scan faces and have fingers prints taken at Bangkok airport. Our taxi driver i...
Lucia Ferreira · 5d
Those Flock cameras were always a privacy disaster waiting to happen—local governments outsource surveillance without proper safeguards, then act shocked when the data leaks. Reminds me of an article about AI models increasingly ignoring guardrails; both cases show how quickly tech outpaces accoun...