Hackers Extract Flock Camera Data, Expose 1.6M Vehicle Images
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
404 Media788“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one of the hackers said in an interview. “We liberated hardware in the field, disarmed them, and proceeded with reverse engineering of the cameras and associated solar equipment.”
Marian Rivoire194Don't forget that Axon and Motorola are other alpr corps that are replacing Flock in towns that claim they are canceling Flock contracts.
Pete Hegseth’s Mom831.5 million pics of 50,000 vehicles over the course of 3 months from ONE FLOCK CAMERA. They can identify you, your passengers, your bumper stickers — all this turns into data ... that can be used to create a profile of you !!!!!
jc-82.bsky.social63So Flock doesn’t want anyone invading its privacy by copying the data it stores.
RygelDominar1648Flock must be destroyed. Its CEO is a terrible person as well.
ash is tired of the world rn46Now do AXON brave hackers.
liz ten eleven160lmfao wait. wait wait wait wait wait. they left the encryption key on the cameras??????? the ones they leave out in the open???????????????????
s. e. smith83Did you know you can find talking points to take to local officials when you yell at them about Flock right here?
Pé 🍺🧿60wait, it was *this* easy to figure out how these things work?
Janette Moser10The data centers are surveillance centers and that's why even your dem electeds are mostly not doing jack shit to stop them.
Nire Bryce8remember to donate to DDOSecrets
Mash3337It would be terrible, just sooo terrible, if more people did this.
Jesse5evil nerds got us into this mess and benevolent nerds will get us out of it
Boywife Astarion Enjoyers of America [Lemon Huzzy Era]4They keep the fucking encryption key on the cameras
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶4Holy fuck these things suck
Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎3a reminder your local city is probably paying millions for these so that cops can follow their wives around and rich fascists can pretend to feel safer
Cities have been dropping Flock at an accelerating pace over concerns regarding out-of-control surveillance, unwanted data sharing, high expenses, and reports of police abusing the tool.
Jen16But will they simply switch to other surveillance brands? Yes. Yes they will.
Sophie11And half of them are being replaced with other cameras that are the same but with a different name. 😒
Neera Tanden Eats Laura Loomer's Ass9They're just switching from Flock to Axon, Motorola or a different surveillance company. People need to wake up and tell their elected officials to take down all surveillance systems or face a political dead end when they're removed from office.
Michael Elliott4Abolish Flock !!! Poke the eye !
vicpescocostanzo.bsky.social3Now Sue flock inc for breach of contract for a billion
Laurie 💙3We need to drop Starlink, too. Who knows what Musk is doing with that!
The Orion31Aw, yeah. Drop it like it's Flock.
Mary Noon8Make sure your city isn't dropping Flock just to replace it with off-brand Flock: Their cities dropped Flock surveillance cameras. They’re still being watched www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Richard J Torres4Any elected official who believes tech companies will act ethically deserve to be voted out
3Crows4Flock away everyone. Let’s get rid of them
Neil3While of course there is the fundamental question of whether this kind of surveillance should even exist, it's kind of amazing that Flock might have made a convincing argument if they were less arrogant and entitled and more technically and architecturally competent to build basic safeguards
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
Micah Lee344I tracked down the very likely specific Flock camera itself. It's in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee. Here's a photo of it from Google Street View. The GPS coordinates were in the logs
Micah Lee83okay I published a blog all about it! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Ryan O'Horo12Keep an eye out for images in the discarded/ directory, log files, log files in crashpacks, the ML models the cameras use, hardcoded credentials, and have fun disassembling the like 24 vendor APKs they use.
Just here6It's cool how the people building the Torment Nexus are at least lazy and incompetent
LAL3Nerdsniped is such a great word lol
Concoloris3lol I was wondering when someone would do this and it's everything I could have hoped for
Andrew Couts13Good 🧵 from Micah here!
Jèf Uphoff8OK, Internet, you know what to do. (Screenshot taken from middle of thread--full thread reposted below.)
𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™6Oh man. ... OH MAN!!!
Drewthulu4What an absolute shitshow. These need to all be taken down…like yesterday.
Aaron Brakel4Thread of the day. Flock running Android version with 9 year old Linux kernel. No security updates on it for 8 years. The build was June 2025. Oh, also API key hardcoded into the app. This company should be obliterated.
Farce Majeure4ICYMI, aside from all the other ways they're terrible, Flock cameras also have comically bad security.
Nick... (still a hermit)4🧵- this is a fun read. and completely not surprising at all
Pat Woods2This whole thread is like what you learn not to do in intro to information security in middle school. Utter lack of digital literacy on how to secure something, let alone for a product you’re trying to sell.
NEW: Hackers pulled down a Flock camera. (“Why just destroy them,” one asked, “when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?”) @wired.com and @404media.co worked together to find out what it revealed:
Sophie16A man in the middle using a custom app that deletes the pictures on the device and creates bogus ones to replace them might be interesting.
ProfMasseyGO7Knowing how the cameras work means hackers could reprogram them to give false information linked to ICE vehicles instead of ICE targets.
Will MacNeil5There’s a scary bit of logic in the article: -Install the cameras for no agreed purpose -People destroy the cameras -Now the cameras have a reason to be there.
Feklar669 SLAVA UKRAINI!!! ANDOR!3Whatever you do, please for the love of God, don't do this!
Kay Bee PDX2So, they are both incredibly accurate and scary, and incredibly incompetent, at the same time: bsky.app/profile/404m...
Bob’s Your Uncle2Should use it to post cops breaking the law, goofing off etc Politicians as well
—>realhackhistory.org22Hacktivism isn’t dead or fully co-opted by nation state spies when people are still doing shit like this for the good of the people.
Ingrid Burrington17Dream team on this story, u are forever the number one computer boy @dmehro.bsky.social
tkillion.bsky.social3"the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. "
Kate Kaye2Do your municipal legislators or procurement people approving or buying these sorts of systems know this level of detail about how flock / ALPRs, drones and other surveillance systems deployed where you live actually work? Why not?
NEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.
Dhruv Mehrotra31The hackers shared the material with @ddosecrets.org which has published it. ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
Dhruv Mehrotra5***The movement*** of vehicles and people. Stupid typo
jtadetroit.bsky.social2But sure, let’s criticize China as a surveillance state
Pattie150,000 images in 21 days? Is that why we "need" these massive data centers?
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. www.wired.com/story/hacker...
Who exactly is paying for these? Who is getting the information? And why are our representatives allowing us to be spied upon and so unafraid of the people?
HorseHalves3If yall are looking for a bunch of these, that town in Western NY that was gonna have a sexbot teacher is COVERED in them.
P Maroney1Thank you for your investigation Exposing details that #Flock cameras track the movements of vehicles and people including images of which flags people display... Let's hope Rep Massie's bill passes ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/patr... #privacy #freedom #security
