• excursion22@piefed.ca
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    7 days ago

    Relevant video I saw posted elsewhere on Lemmy today.

    Tl;dw: Flock cameras are alarmingly easily hackable and many of their security and efficacy claims on their website are outright false.

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      7 days ago

      Ease of hacking isn’t even something I considered. I just don’t want my face anywhere on whatever server because a flock camera saw me

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        2 days ago

        After watching his first video, I spotted tons of cams capable of doing such surveillance (Hikvision, a Chinese brand, which offers surveillance as a Service, iiuc) on my country’s streets in Europe…