Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times

kept by eddie jan 12

A researcher found a hardcoded ArcGIS API key exposed 53 times in Flock Safety's public code, giving unrestricted access to the mapping layers consolidating surveillance data from 12,000 deployments.

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