Files recovered from a physically captured Flock automatic license plate reader show the device records far more than plates, stores huge volumes of imagery, and contained an encryption key on an unencrypted partition.
Devices can capture dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, in recovered logs, produced over a million images.
An unencrypted partition contained the key to an encrypted partition, allowing access to most recorded footage.
Recovered imagery sometimes isolated non-plate graphics (bumper stickers, patches), creating additional privacy risk.
Schneier on Security Home Blog Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link) at the software: The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist's saddlebag.
Go slap yr parents for not raising a decent human being because littering public spaces the way u do it is not decent. This is the true epidemic of our modern societies, mememememe, screaming for attention in public cause u didn't get any at home. DBA • September 22, 2026 2:13 PM I am encouraged by recent stories that Flock corporate is offering buy-outs and looking at layoffs due to the number of cities cancelling contracts.
That's pretty bad security engineering." But is it really surprising? I was not impressed, to be blunt much of it was low cost "not made in the USA" type stuff. So when you know what it is for one you know what it is for others… I guess we will have to wait for a full breakdown on that.
Hackers pulled a Flock camera off a pole, cracked its encryption, and revealed exactly how it tracks vehicles and people.
Flock cameras are having a hard time identifying some objects and mistaking them for license plates. But as the devices may be struggling to accomplish their most critical task, they seem to be identifying something else: people. 'The detector cropped an American flag patch on the rider's saddlebag as if it were a plat
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars.
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