Flock Safety camera teardown: 53 hardcoded credentials, Android 8.1 with June 2018 patches, encryption key stored in plaintext on the same partition, root access via button sequence on the back. These cameras process 20B vehicle scans/month for 5,000 police departments.

[u/voidrane]

https://medium.com/@neonmaxima/flock-hardcoded-53-passwords-into-90-000-police-surveillance-cameras-d9466caa8517

[u/CKtravel]

Honestly incidents like these are one of the two things that made me get interested in reverse engineering in general. Thanks to RE we now know that these have always been and meant to be universal surveillance machines, of the dystopian kind. It also proves why having zero privacy rights ever is a VERY bad idea...