This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and am now thoroughly nerd-sniped. Hackers from a collective called stegan0gram collected the data. “Why

Despite being a relatively recent build, the Flock camera was running Android 8.1. This version of Android was released in 2017, and officially stopped getting support from Google in 2021 (see the Android end-of-life page for more info). And despite Google publishing security fixes for Android 8.1 until 2021, the Android patch level is 2018-06-05. This camera is missing Android security updates for the last eight years.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    i wonder if this a majority of us – everyone has different skill levels with a huge majority of us having the needful basics to be turned into a critical mass.

    the only problem i can foresee is that a huge majority in this space are either liberal or libertarian – which history proves are easily co-optible or are already aligned by the same epstein class that wants the flock cameras.