It is an easy request. When the announcement blurring was made available, I made the request just to see if it they would do it - and they did!
Now, if anyone in the neighborhood asks me, "Why is your house blurred?" I reply, "Why are you asking? Is anyone asking questions about me? What did they look like?" (well, that's what I plan on replying if anyone asks)
I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.
now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious
Mysterious? Yes. Suspicious? I wouldn't think that. Plenty of houses in my neighborhood are blurred. I don't think much about it. And yes, I can just walk over and look. But I'm their neighbor. Not someone megameters away...
It does enhance curiosity. As an experiment i once requested Google Street view to blur my previous home. It really stands out being the only blurred house in the entire area. And i can’t undo it either :)
However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Netflix account would require to watch a show. Not only could he access the live footage, but he could also review the video archives and even delete the recordings if desired.
The Flock Safety DetectionProcessing com.flocksafety.android.objects application 6.35.33 for Android (installed on Falcon and Sparrow License Plate Readers and Bravo Edge AI Compute Devices) bundles a Java Keystore (flock_rye.bks) along with its hardcoded password (flockhibiki17) in its code. The keystore contains a private key.
As someone who may or may not have a Flock (YC 2017) watching me as I type this, I'm glad that it exists. I can now feel "Flock Safe and Secure™", knowing that the compromise I've made has been worth it.
There’s something wrong with that guy. Quite apart from the gross privacy violation issues. Most of us didn’t even know what Flock was before the Superbowl and now there is this massive public controversy around it, and every time he opens his mouth he makes it worse. The board needs to replace him ASAP.
Most companies are controlled by CEOs that are on the board and pay themselves a boatload of free stock. The CEOs make sure their exit requires paying them to leave.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadNow, if anyone in the neighborhood asks me, "Why is your house blurred?" I reply, "Why are you asking? Is anyone asking questions about me? What did they look like?" (well, that's what I plan on replying if anyone asks)
Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a (mobile) camera on a pole aimed at his house 24/7. This is being done for his own safety, of course.
Mysterious? Yes. Suspicious? I wouldn't think that. Plenty of houses in my neighborhood are blurred. I don't think much about it. And yes, I can just walk over and look. But I'm their neighbor. Not someone megameters away...
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Hmmmm…
See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-...
There's also https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-59407 But that's hardly the only one. For a fuller picture, you may be interested in https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search?keyword=flock&resultType=re...I guess we now know what someone at Flock likes in their whiskey glass.