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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People (www.404media.co)
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The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which shared the data with WIRED. 404 Media and WIRED then analyzed those files as part of a joint investigation.

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[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

It must be hard for them to have had their privacy violated this way. Thoughts & prayers