Hackers stole a Flock camera and found 27,321 video clips, 1.6 million images, and an encryption key
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WTF?! It seems that Flock just can't stop making headlines these days – none of them good, of course. The latest report illustrating why so many cities are dropping the license plate readers involves hackers who physically pulled a camera down from above a roadway, copied its storage, and found an encryption key sitting on the device itself. Convenient.
The group, calling itself stegan0gram, said it removed and disarmed the hardware before reverse engineering the camera and its associated solar equipment.
This required getting hold of an actual camera; the investigation didn't remotely breach Flock's cloud network. The recovered material became the subject of a joint investigation by 404 Media and Wired.
Inside the Android-based device, the hackers found unencrypted storage partitions. One contained a key that unlocked another area holding recorded...
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