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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. (www.404media.co)
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I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal. On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera records and livestreams me—without any password or login—to the open internet. I wander into the intersection, stare at the camera and wave. On the livestream, I can see myself clearly. Hundreds of miles away, my colleagues are remotely watching me too through the exposed feed.

Flock left livestreams and administrator control panels for at least 60 of its AI-enabled Condor cameras around the country exposed to the open internet, where anyone could watch them, download 30 days worth of video archive, and change settings, see log files, and run diagnostics.

Archive: http://archive.today/IWMKe

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The original is better because no higher resolution version actually looks like the original. It's so weird, it's not hars at all to make a higher res one that's almost identical to the original yet all the ones I've seen just look like shit. I'm gonna take some time tomorrow and make a high resolution version with the details correct.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I don't think it's an upscale. I think it's an mspaint recreation. There's no reason an AI upscale would turn the cheek circles into ellipses and move them away from the edge of the cheek. All the colors are also different, and the geometry differs in places too.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The high res one looks better as a cutout instead of the full background, but the jpeg adds to the charm IMHO.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The high-res one also removes all the shadows, I assume the upscaling algorithm believed they were blur