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## Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras

DevFeed: [Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reverse-engineering-flock-cameras-55821.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/reverse-engineering-flock-cameras.html>)

Author: Bruce Schneier

Published: 2026-09-21T14:37:45Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Schneier on Security](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/schneier-on-security.md>)

Topics: [Reverse Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reverse-engineering.md>), [Computer vision](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-vision.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encryption.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [alpr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alpr.md>), [cameras](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cameras.md>), [cars](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cars.md>), [computer-vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-vision.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [flock](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flock.md>), [reverse-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reverse-engineering.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [security-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-engineering.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

### AI overview

A reverse-engineering analysis of a captured Flock automatic license plate reader camera found software that detects people, vehicles, license plates, bicycles, bumper stickers, and other graphics. Recovered logs indicate the device generated more than a million images, while an unencrypted partition contained a key for an encrypted partition.

### Source excerpt

Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader's (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist's saddlebag...