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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | by Paresh Dave | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, surveillance technology

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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (wired.com)

2026-09-19 | by Paresh Dave | tags: flock safety, voluntary severance, license plate readers

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Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: josh hawley, flock safety, senate hearing

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Cops Are Giving Complete Nonsense Reasons to Search Thousands of Flock Cameras (futurism.com)

2026-09-18 | by Frank Landymore | tags: flock cameras, electric frontier foundation, license plate scanners

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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: ternary bonsai 2 27b, qwen3.8 27b, ternary weights

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Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People (slashdot.org)

2026-09-17 | by Posted | tags: flock, surveillance cameras, license plate recognition

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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Jowi Morales | tags: flock safety, license plate cameras, data encryption

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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, surveillance cameras

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Hackers stole a Flock camera and found 27,321 video clips, 1.6 million images, and an encryption key (techspot.com)

2026-09-17 | by Rob Thubron | get Reolink Argus 4 Pro solar security camera → | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, stegan0gram

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Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear (wired.com)

2026-09-17 | by Paresh Dave | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, made in usa

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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | get handheld 2D barcode scanner ID card reader → | tags: driver's license barcodes, signing keys, aamva

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Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-16 | get privacy license plate cover anti-camera → | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, raja krishnamoorthi

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, data breach

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, data breach

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works (wired.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, automatic license plate readers, 404 media

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Records show police justified Flock license plate searches with answers like "LMAO" and "idk" (techspot.com)

2026-09-15 | by Daniel Sims | get privacy screen protector for laptop webcam anti-surveillance → | tags: flock safety, alpr, license plate readers

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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, boston police department

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The safety and privacy concerns of storing your driver's license in a digital wallet (engadget.com)

2026-09-15 | by Novak Božović | get Spigen RFID blocking phone wallet case → | tags: digital wallet, driver's license, mdl

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Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks (futurism.com)

2026-09-15 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, wrongful arrest

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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Tom Uren | get identity theft protection service → | tags: nexus dark web, krebs on security, idscan

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A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Vinay Patel | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, electronic frontier foundation

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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' (slashdot.org)

2026-09-15 | by Posted | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, surveillance

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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Cindy Cohn | get Data and Goliath Bruce Schneier book → | tags: mass surveillance, ice, facial recognition

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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Bruce Schneier | get Eufy Security Video Doorbell → | tags: mass surveillance, lawfare, ice

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Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price (wired.com)

2026-09-15 | by Paresh Dave | tags: flock cameras, license plate readers, no flock act

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Trump Decides Now Would Be a Great Time to Support Flock Cameras (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: flock cameras, license plate readers, trump

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XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: xls, high-level synthesis, verilog

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Trump Throws His Weight Behind Flock Cameras (futurism.com)

2026-09-14 | by Frank Landymore | tags: flock safety, license plate scanners, ai cameras

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What happens after a town de-Flocks (theverge.com)

2026-09-14 | by Gadel Valle | tags: flock, license plate readers, ai-enabled cameras

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Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public (slashdot.org)

2026-09-13 | by Posted | get Vantrue N4 3 channel dash cam → | tags: flock, investigatetv, brendan keefe