Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just available

The live feed connected to more than 60 Flock AI surveillance cameras has been left available for viewing on the web, allowing anyone to see the live feed of each location without needing a username or password, according to Results from tech YouTuber Ben Jordan and 404 media.

Flock is a technology company that operates With thousands From law enforcement agencies and companies to deploy a network of AI-powered cameras across the country. Also recently In partnership with RingThis gives Flock customers the ability to request snapshots from users in Ring’s Neighbors app. As he pointed out 404 mediaMany Flock cameras are manufactured for Scan car license plates. However, the feeds exposed to the Internet connect to Flock’s Condor cameras, which can pan, tilt and zoom Automatically track people and vehicles.

“I watched a man leave his house in the morning in New York,” Jordan says in his video. “I watched a woman run alone on a forest trail in Georgia. This trail had multiple cameras, and I could watch a man snowboarding and then take a break to watch snowboarding videos on his phone. How? Because the AI ​​in the camera automatically zoomed in on it — just like it zoomed in on a couple arguing at a street market in Atlanta.”

Jordan worked with John “GainSec” Gaines – formerly of Detecting security vulnerabilities Within the Flock system – to find live broadcasts of Shodan, it is a search engine that contains a database of devices connected to the Internet.

As reported 404 mediaThe two set up dozens of Flock live feeds and admin dashboards, where they could not only view broadcasts, but also freely download video archives from the last 30 days, change settings, delete footage, view log files, and run diagnostics, he reported. 404 media And Jordan. Anyone with links to the stream can access it, without needing credentials, according to The Verge. 404 media.

In some cases, Jordan and 404 mediaFlock’s Jason Kobler visited Flock camera locations, where they were filmed and shown on an openly accessible live stream.

“This was a limited configuration bug on a very small number of devices, and has since been remedied,” a Flock spokesperson said in a statement. 404 media. The herd did not respond immediately EdgeRequest for comment.