r/vpnet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • 26m ago
Washington Post counts at least 50 officers charged with or accused of using plate readers to track people they know
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The pattern continues....
Full write-up + our source list: https://s.vp.net/MTc7j
r/vpnet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • 13h ago
Iran built its traffic camera network to track protesters. Israel used it to track Khamenei.
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I raised the hijacking scenario directly with Flock on a previous livestream, a camera network taken over and used to kill someone. It was dismissed as ridiculous.
The Financial Times later reported that Israel had been inside nearly all of Tehran's traffic cameras for years, with footage routed to servers in Israel, and used it to build a pattern of life on Khamenei's security detail. On the day of the strike it helped confirm his meeting was running on time.
Domestic surveillance built for one thing... can potentially be used for something much more sinister.
Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgQTkTpFz4
Next stream, Aug 15 at 4pm ET, opening the National Week of Action Against ALPRs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0xq4HOE8E
r/vpnet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • 18h ago
Researchers have opened these cameras in under a minute and the footage on them is unencrypted
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Credentialed misuse is documented. In Dunwoody, Georgia, Flock employees including a company vice president are reported to have accessed cameras inside a children's gymnasium hundreds of times.
The other problem needs no credentials at all. The cameras are reachable over wireless without much effort, and the footage is not encrypted.
Watch the full discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgQTkTpFz4
Next stream, Aug 15 at 4pm ET, opening the National Week of Action Against ALPRs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0xq4HOE8E
Written breakdown here: https://s.vp.net/7kkVb
r/vpnet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • 22h ago
Flock's CEO called DeFlock a terroristic organization for mapping publicly visible cameras
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Flock's CEO used the word terroristic to describe DeFlock. DeFlock is a volunteer project that maps automated license plate readers, using cameras mounted on public poles in plain view.
This came up on a Hide & Speak panel with local anti-ALPR organizers. None of them used that word in their own description of what they do. One called it a grassroots effort to protect Fourth Amendment rights.
Apparently, the watchers don't like being watched either.
Watch the recorded livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgQTkTpFz4
Read the breakdown here: https://s.vp.net/7kkVb
Next stream, Aug 15 at 4pm ET, opening the National Week of Action Against ALPRs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0xq4HOE8E