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baggachipzlast Friday at 10:02 PM5 repliesview on HN

Who could have guessed that the greedy, opportunistic, evil corporation whose sole intent is to invade our privacy in the name of "security" would be run by incompetents in the security realm?


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Spooky23last Friday at 11:10 PM

Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character.

One has to wonder whether these passwords were that way purposefully to avoid accountability for privileged partners. Most of these systems are deployed with grant money that it comes from the department of justice.

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ummonkyesterday at 4:12 AM

I'm surprised they didn't name it after some Tolkien reference that they completely misinterpreted...

hopelitelast Friday at 11:05 PM

FYI; Flock was/is a YC backed company

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

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ncr100last Friday at 10:15 PM

Here's an elucidation, taking that question seriously, supplying a bunch of "Why's" --

* https://medium.com/@ajay.monga73/why-developers-still-hardco...

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123sereusernameyesterday at 2:59 AM

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