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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People (www.404media.co)
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[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

[…] about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!” More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.

Oof. Although also:

When the camera did restart, another service left a final message in the logs: “A reboot was requested! ¡Adios Amigos!”

I was surprised by that for a moment, then realized that I somehow conflated ICE and Flock in my brain, being surprised to see Spanish like that (I suspect ICE would not have that in their software). But of course, my conflation was unfounded.

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