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Hackers breach Flock cameras to reveal how the company tracks cars and people: Report
Hackers bypassed a Flock camera’s security, revealing how the AI-powered surveillance system tracks vehicles and processes vast amounts of data.
The Flock cameras, once considered to be the perfect solution for tracking and inspecting vehicles across the US road networks, have now gained the reputation of being a flawed system. The Constabulary’s failure to contain data breaches and unofficial use in the past has led people across the country to criticize the new infrastructure. These AI-integrated cameras have been ripped down in several areas of the United States, and recently a group took over a camera and bypassed its security guardrails to reveal how these cameras are able to track movements.
The hackers have been able to copy the cameras' storage and recover an encryption key that was stored on the device; this led to thousands of videos and vehicle detections that the cameras are able to decipher. The hackers shared their findings with 404 Media. Some of the most sensitive areas and storage that helped the automatic license plate reader remained inaccessible.
