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The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare
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We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
Benn Jordan
1.4M subscribers • 10 videos on Hallway
- Recommended by 5 people: 4 on Hacker News and 1 on Lobsters.
- Presented by Benn Jordan
- Linked in the descriptionGainSec/anti-crime-ecosystem-research
- May be out of date. The tools, versions or practices it shows have likely moved on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
3.2M views11 months ago5 recommendations
SecurityExploits and vulnerabilitiesPrivacy and surveillanceReverse engineering
Benn Jordan demonstrates critical security vulnerabilities in Flock Safety license-plate-reading cameras and discusses the implications of police surveillance.
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5 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an eye-opening investigation into the security flaws and privacy concerns of widespread Flock surveillance cameras.
abalashovon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast”
…r stalking exes and things like that. This _is_ a stop on the way to a Chinese-style surveillance state, and there's nothing inevitable about it. But it will happen if we allow it to happen. Ben Johnson's video on the security vulnerabilities, linked in the article, always deserves an explicit shout-out. It's likely to intrigue the tinkerers here: link to this video…
stanacon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched”
I would also recommend Benn Jordan's YT channel, he has a couple of videos covering flock cameras. His latest one is: link to this video edit: grammar
text0404on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video]”
This is an excellent video documenting some Flock camera vulnerabilities by Benn Jordan, a security hobbyist/researcher: link to this video . It's a bit long, but worth it.
gorgonicalon Hacker News • Recommends
On “US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology”
Musician-turning-tech anarchist (?) Benn Jordan is making a very interesting series of videos about Flock cameras, their poor safety, and their gray-area interfacing with local governments: link link to this video link link I recommend them.
ultrarunneron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems”
Maybe you're not familiar with Flock Safety, but my comment is not about locking up high value items. It's more about my location information being shipped to weird police circles by big box stores. 0 deflock.me 1 link to this video
phyzomeon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves”
Sure, around 33:00 here: link to this video The other video is link but I don't recall which one goes more into it. It's also possible I'm just remembering Flock-specific stuff from other sources, and the things he shows in these videos are more general issues with security camera companies (using Flock as the example). It would be great if this stuff was (also?) published as blog posts so that it could be easily skimmed...