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AI Surveillance: Unmasking Flock Safety’s Insecurities 29.12.2025 51:20

Security researcher Jon “Gainsec” Gaines and YouTuber Benn Jordan discuss their examination of Flock Safety’s AI-powered license plate readers and how cost-driven design choices, outdated software, and weak security controls expose them to abuse. The post AI Surveillance: Unmasking Flock Safety’s Insecurities appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts .

Episode 188: Flock Safety Flies in Surveillance Technology's Gray Zone Episode 188: Flock Safety Flies in Surveillance Technology’s Gray Zone 21.08.2020 51:04

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Also: users know that password security is important...but they can't seem to change their insecure behavior. In our...

Episode 167: Made in America? Trade Tensions highlight Supply Chain Risk 11.11.2019 26:01

In this episode of the podcast (#167): two stories this week - one from Pittsburgh and one from New York - have highlighted anxiety about Chinese made cameras and other security gear deployed in U.S. government agencies and in cities and towns. We're joined by Terry Dunlap the co-founder of ReFirm Labs to talk about why software supply chain risks are real -and growing. The post Episode 167: Made...

Die Hard is a Movie About Building Automation Insecurity. Discuss. 25.12.2018 34:08

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#126): Die Hard has finally been embraced as the bloody, violent, feel-good Christmas movie its always been. But the film, which turns 30 this year, is about more than the power of ordinary guys to stand up to evil. Did you know it's also a (very) early warning about the dire insecurity of building automation systems? We speak with Ang Cui of the fir...

Breaking the Ice on DICE: scaling secure Internet of Things Identities 26.07.2018 33:20

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group*, Dennis Mattoon of Microsoft Research gives us the low-down on DICE: the Device Identifier Composition Engine Architectures, which provides a means of solving a range of security and identity problems on low cost, low power IoT endpoints. Among them: establishing strong device identity, doing device attestation and safe deployment a...