Hackers Cracked Open A Flock Camera. It's Not Just Watching Your Car. It's Watching You.

Hackers ripped a Flock license plate camera off a pole, copied everything inside it, and found out it isn’t just watching your car. It’s built to spot you. Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra at 404 Media and WIRED went through the code, and this is the first real look inside the cameras going up over roads all across the country.

Here’s how it works. When anything moves, the camera fires off a burst of photos, about twenty eight for a normal car and more than a hundred for some. One camera, over about three weeks of log...