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53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructur - Hackers - Jan 9, 2026
Interesting write up on how Flock exposed their ArcGIS API key, exposing sensitive data for drone statuses, gunshot detections (cities), cameras, GPS locations of patrol cars, trackers, vehicle alerts, 911 events, and more.
Seems like a pretty dangerous vulnerability affecting over 5K police departments, thousands of businesses, and I'm sure an unknown number of sensitive orgs.
https://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructure
RE: 53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructur - DramaKing - Jan 10, 2026
This could have been a huge data leak and scandal for Flock.
RE: 53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructur - Hackers - Jan 10, 2026
(Jan 10, 2026 12:29 PM)DramaKing Wrote: This could have been a huge data leak and scandal for Flock.
I wonder if they can guarantee it won't be