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How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet

On the podcast this week, I talked to YouTuber Benn Jordan, who has done some of our favorite reporting on Flock, the automated license plate reader surveillance company. A couple months ago, he found vulnerabilities in some of Flock’s license plate reader cameras.

I have been following Benn’s work for a while, and soon after that video came out, he reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock’s Condor cameras were left live-streaming to the open internet. In this episode, we discuss how he discovered the issue and what happened next.

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked OurselvesFlock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet404 MediaJason KoeblerHow Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet

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