A collective has recovered a plate reader from the public highway and copied its storage. The on-board code reveals a detection of people, not just vehicles.
A collective calling itself Stegan0gram claims to have obtained a Flock Safety road surveillance camera "in the field" and then dismantled it to study its operation. By copying the device's internal storage, its members found two unencrypted partitions, one of which contained an encryption key that gives access to most of the videos and images recorded.
The aircraft's logs show that it had captured more than 1.6 million images corresponding to about 50,000 vehicles over a 21-day window. A joint analysis by 404 Media and Wired of the exposed data uncovered software designed not only to recognize vehicles and their plates, but also people and other modes of travel such as bicycles.
The code confirms that Flock cameras record the position of people entering the field and associate each detection with a confidence score — a capability that goes beyond the license plate reading typically put forward to justify the deployment of these devices.
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