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
Tear em down
Or point a very powerful laser at them
Or like someone in Hacker News comm suggested, use this to track a US Senator for 24 hours, make it all public, then see if they’re still OK with this…
I feel like this is being done now but by the ‘adversaries’ that would love to keep the vulnerabilities a secret they can exploit later.
Often the case, yep.
Do a SCROTUM and find out of they’re still sending people to SECOT.
Might as well use it to track ICE
They’ll just make it illegal for just them. Like the Internet privacy
Hacker News Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548
Without the ycombinator
https://www.hckrnws.com/stories/46355548
That’s the first I’ve seen a HN web client. Why does it exist, and what’s the reason against linking directly to Y Combinator?
Ycombinator is the Thiel funded Altman led cancer VC that originated the surveillance capitalism
neonazitechbro situation we have today. It spearheaded the death of US democracy.Peter Thiel invested in Flock through Y Combinator
YCombinator is a VC fund trying to pretend like they’re hacker(tinkering) friendly community, when their business model is boosting their own companies/startups. And companies aren’t hitting those profits with people tinkering.
https://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/
In all, that doesn’t align with the hacker ethos. They’re just capitalizing on what it stands for with a lot of techbro hubris.
The first step of limiting their influence is using a different opensource frontend.
https://github.com/rajatkulkarni95/hckrnws
Fuck “Hacker News”, the people that hang around there are in major ways responsible for the shitty state the internet -and the world- is in now.
How so? HN is literally the only forum I know of which doesn’t require email to regsiter an account and has a free, publicly accessible API.
Look at the people who hang around there.
This is the way.