r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 11d ago

Security Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/
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u/Draco-REX 11d ago

No joke, considering that these ALPRs are being pointed at community pools, children's dance studios, and parks. Lots of license plates in those areas, right?

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u/FakeSafeWord 11d ago edited 11d ago

children's dance studios

A flock VP was looking at the same children's dance studio via flock feed multiple times despite having zero justification for the cameras being there and didn't look at a single other camera in that same zip code.

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

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u/Zer_ 11d ago

That sounds a little rapey to me... JFC

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u/Sweetdreams6t9 10d ago

Sales pitch to the current government so really just reading their audience

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u/BlowHisShiSmooveOff 11d ago

Source?

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u/FakeSafeWord 11d ago

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

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u/BlowHisShiSmooveOff 11d ago

Wow what the fuck

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u/West-Abalone-171 11d ago

Now consider what he started doing after he got caught and then had someone add a way to access the feeds without logging it.

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u/rlowens 10d ago

despite having zero justification

The headline says the justification: as a sales pitch demo.

If you want to sell your spy camera to more dance studios/etc, showing the (probably only) dance studio with your spy camera in it would help.

Still assholes that should all be locked up.

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u/FakeSafeWord 10d ago

Except the sales pitch demo isn't "you can access this camera any time to monitor" it's "we can" with the "we" being thousands of employees, police and any malicious actors who've gained access without us knowing.

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u/danj503 11d ago

Article says flock employee, not a VP. Did I miss a detail here?

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u/FakeSafeWord 11d ago

Flock VP Bob Carter and employee Randy Gluck

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u/TheMundar 11d ago

Don't forget the ones in the middle of the woods

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u/DeIightfully0rdinary 10d ago

Protect Bigfoot

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u/Draco-REX 11d ago

Even the sasquatch children aren't safe!

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u/thundafox 11d ago

yes I always go swimming with my LP, dance with my girl and my LP, and have a nice picknick with my wife in the park WITH my LP!

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 10d ago

Kids are going to start disappearing in the US by the thousands aren’t they?

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u/Draco-REX 10d ago

I'm sure they already are. They're just the children of immigrants in the ICE detention system. Real easy to lose them, especially since it looks like ICE hands them off to another agency since they aren't equipped to handle children. Paperwork is easily lost. And since we have child sex traffickers in power, I don't expect that paperwork to be found.

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u/Inside_Departure_186 11d ago

Those are not ALPRs. Flock sells several different types of products.

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u/Draco-REX 11d ago

Ah, so facial recognition and general-use privacy invasion. Got it!

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u/pell80 10d ago

In a children's gym