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

182 pointsby pkaedingtoday at 3:16 AM86 commentsview on HN

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ifh-hntoday at 8:34 AM

Since the page is currently down and I have no idea what flocked means in the context of license plates, can I assume this is US specific?

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tptacektoday at 4:34 AM

Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".

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pilingualtoday at 4:59 AM

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.

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nh43215rgbtoday at 5:57 AM

> You cannot access this site because the owner has reached their plan limits. Check back later once traffic has gone down.

> If you are owner of this website, prevent this from happening again by upgrading your plan on the Cloudflare Workers dashboard.

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GaryBlutotoday at 6:27 AM

Slashdotted within 3 hours.

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gotekom952today at 9:00 AM

Very problematic flock security video - how easy is to hack them https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=vC2Kyl_e30kVVmXT

opengrasstoday at 4:57 AM

Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?

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jmward01today at 8:08 AM

I wonder if I got a license plate holder that said 'I do not consent to selling my position information' if I could sue them.

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BlarfMcFlarftoday at 12:01 PM

I mean, we already had PRISM, why is anyone acting like this is a big deal?

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habinerotoday at 4:03 AM

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.

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mfkptoday at 5:55 AM

Seems like the website has ran out of cloudflare worker credits on their plan:

  Please check back later
  Error 1027
  This website has been temporarily rate limited
bix6today at 5:09 AM

Interesting I can’t access this over VPN

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dev_l1x_betoday at 9:00 AM

Have I been HNed? [Yes] No

user3939382today at 4:51 AM

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

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kazinatortoday at 7:47 AM

Have I been flocculated? Check your social security number to see whether you are considered pond scum.

zombiwooftoday at 8:52 AM

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onetokeoverthetoday at 4:09 AM

just enter 10 license numbers.