My city just ended our pilot Flock program. I hope others do the same.
But I think the real issue with Flock will be private security. Random Home Depot parking lots, etc.
https://www.29news.com/2025/12/17/charlottesville-ends-flock...
Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
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Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#32Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.
Like what?
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#33This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?
First time?
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#34Remember when Zuck called his fellow students at harvard who used facebook “Dumb fucks”? The US is accelerating into techno-authoritarianism, and all of these tech companies adopted “companies over countries” motto since the start, it’s not a surprise now.
In the sense that the US has been anti-intellectualist for decades, I'm kind of ok with it. All the kids who fucked around in school and picked on the nerds for just existing are kind of getting their comeuppance. It's definitely cut off your nose to spite your face type shit, but does give me a little bit of joy. "You stuffed me in a locker and destroyed my social life because I read a book at lunch. I'm going to au…
How much does food and electricity cost you (if the electricity is even on for you at all)? Also, uh, this isn't high school anymore, and the "nerds vs. jocks" framing says a lot more about your own internal state than it does about the state of the world, which is being run into the ground by wealthy oligarchs. If you have bad high school memories to process, that can be done elsewhere.
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#35My city just ended our pilot Flock program. I hope others do the same. But I think the real issue with Flock will be private security. Random Home Depot parking lots, etc. https://www.29news.com/2025/12/17/charlottesville-ends-flock...
The local credit union in Eugene had installed Flock cams at the entrances to all their branches. They took em down after only a few of our community members began protests out front a few branches and emailing with the CU's leadership before our city terminated our contract and removed the cams
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#36If these folks get in trouble, they might try hosting with Freedom.nl . It's +/- the old xs4all crew, and they might be in for some more fun in the 21st century.
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#37> The site’s only input fields accept license plate numbers (which are hashed client-side before transmission and cannot be harvested)
License plates are trivially short, hashing them accomplishes no additional level of privacy if the hashes could be bruted in seconds on an antique GPU.
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#38Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.
America is huge and there's a lot of exceptionally stupid people especially in the South and Midwest. Not much I can do about that over here in the coastal Northeast.
I was offended and then I defined "exceptionally stupid" a few ways and all the statistics support this claim.
I'm still offended though.
Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#39> With the new Divinity game in the works, I decided to do a run as Gale in BG3. I don't support this decision but I respect it. Curious what the Cloudflare HNers have to say about this debacle.
Can't be less than what support has had to say up until now.
Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they/we absolutely love the distraction
Because our educational system has been dismantled
Cloudflare outage on Dec. 5 on remote servers were /user/ parsing errors in HTTP.
Flock does this well in terms of bios spinlock releases, whereas a secure measure is stress-testing network traffic.