Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

Dhruv Mehrotra and Joseph Cox writing for WIRED (Apple News):

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.

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The software running on the camera explicitly detects people, something which is typically overlooked in discussions around Flock cameras. When it spots a person, it records where they appear in the image and how confident it is in the detection.