Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    11 days ago

    and this is why my security system will never connect to the Internet.

    I’ve had cops ask for my footage before that sneer at me sending them the raw files. “why can’t you just pull up the app?” or my favorite, “you should use ring, then we can just send a request to them for the footage.”

    sure, pig. sure. I’ll open my home as a part of your distributed network surveillance botnet. /s

  • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    11 days ago

    It’d be a shame if anonymous types started working on poisoning all publicly accessible cameras with ai poison pills that brick whatever model you try to run on the footage

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Green high powered lasers, they can burn cmos sensors. Also the iPhone and some car lidar sensors can burn cmos sensors.

    Not the question is if the Flock plate readers are susceptible to this.