Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched • Hacker News Board

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by pilingual » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:08 AM UTC

user3939382 wrote: post #15

Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.

If YouTube personalities can break into the hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if foreign intelligence has already figured out a way. Clownin

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by bix6 » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

Interesting I can’t access this over VPN

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by WalterSear » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

opengrass wrote: post #19

Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?

Does your significant other know about your car collection? You may have a car hoarding problem.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

opengrass wrote: post #19

Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?

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Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by bigbuppo » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #13

calvinmorrison wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flock is a private company, right. That's the whole schtick. Like, Flock can retain records indefinitely for example, they may sell those records to the government but they're a private party.

What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.

Just because the records created on behalf of the government are held by a private enterprise doesn't mean they aren't government records.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by bigbuppo » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:20 AM UTC

user3939382 wrote: post #15

Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.

I've got $10 on compromised six months before they had their first customer.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by ccgreg » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

bix6 wrote: post #22

Interesting I can’t access this over VPN

Well, yeah. Clownflare

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by tptacek » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:22 AM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #25

tptacek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.

Just because the records created on behalf of the government are held by a private enterprise doesn't mean they aren't government records.

Right, I agree. My point is that the FOIA laws of many states forbid disclosing the data this web page purports to surface.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by ccgreg » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

habinero wrote: post #2

I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.

With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?

Most people park at their home and many drive to work. If you have both of those data points, you can identify people.

Re: Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Post by johnebgd » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 5:30 AM UTC

pilingual wrote: post #20

Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv" What a sick society we live in.

Dystopian society.