This reporting was done in collaboration with 404media. Here's the discussion for 404's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726577

Distributed Denial of Secrets has published the partition images: https://ddosecrets.org/article/flock-alpr-camera

so when do we get it flipped to a nationwide bird migration tracking system?

as someone pointed out: let's make that "flock" name accurate

also make it identify bird song, I am sure there are microphones on there

>At the same time, about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!

I think I should start posting a reminder in Flock threads that Axon is a Flock competitor, is also engaged in mass surveillance, and is possibly even worse, but there’s rarely any mention of it. Journalists need to do some digging there. This shouldn’t just be a Flock story, or Flock will just get bought up or something and everyone will move on.

(The above should not be read as supporting Flock or discouraging further investigation.)

> The camera’s logs also show the camera struggling with storage. Its logs recorded more than 27,000 “no space left on device” errors while trying to save full-resolution images, along with tens of thousands of related errors, crashes, and reboots. At the same time, 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.

Lol

But will it run Doom?

So… all that data is literally there for any unauthorized person to walk up and take it.

It’s not even suitably encrypted on device?

Zero trust in anything Flock says.

Why did we not get the cool dystopia ala Gibson's Chiba City?

Title is missing "(YC S17)" after "Flock".